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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988
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EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Council [Egypt] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Wanted last child (B_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: EGY1988-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 417
End: 417
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
433. At the time you became pregnant (with NAME), did you want to have that child then, did you want to wait until later, or did you want no (more) children at all?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NO MORE 3
(ALL GO TO 426 FOR NEXT BIRTH, OR, IF NO OTHER BIRTH, GO TO 501)
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted last child then
2 Wanted last child later
3 Wanted no more children
7 Unsure
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
FPLCHDESIRE (V367) reports whether the woman's last born child was wanted at the time she got pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all. The cutoff point for when the woman's last child was born varies across samples; see Comparability.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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