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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987
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MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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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
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Wanted last child (C_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: MLI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 340
End: 340
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
418. When you were pregnant with (NAME OF LAST CHILD) did you want to have this child at that time, or wait until later, or not have other children at all?

AT THAT TIME 1
LATER 2
NOT HAVE ANY 3
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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