Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
311. How many living children did you have when you used a method to avoid becoming pregnant for the first time?
IF NONE RECORD '00'
NUMBER OF CHILDREN _____
Categories
Value
Category
0
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4+
7
Inconsistent number reported
8
Missing
9
Never used FP
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
FP1STUSGPKID (V311) reports the number of living children, if any, the woman had when she first used a contraceptive method, with the number top-coded at 4+ children. FP1STUSLVKID reports responses to the same question, without top-coding the answers.
When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.