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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005
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EGY_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Population [Egypt], National Population Council [Egypt], El-Zanaty and Associates, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Time wanted current pregnancy (C_PGDESIRE)

Data file: EGY2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 632
End: 632
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
228) ENTER 'P's IN COLUMN 2 OF CALENDAR, BEGINNING WITH THE MONTH OF INTERVIEW AND FOR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MONTHS OF THE CURRENT PREGNANCY COMPLETED .

229) At the time you became pregnant did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Then
2 Later
3 Not at all
4 Up to God
7 Don't know/Not sure
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
For women who are currently pregnant, PGDESIRE (V225) reports whether, at the time of becoming pregnant, the woman wanted her pregnancy then, later, or not at all.

concept

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