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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001
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MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Man's preferred waiting time for birth of a/another child (grouped) (M_PREFTIMECHGPMN)

Data file: MLI2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 432
End: 433
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
503. CHECK 502:

SPOUSE/PARTNER NOT PREGNANT OR UNSURE OR NO SPOUSE/PARTNER: How long would you like to wait before the birth of a (another) child?

SPOUSE/PARTNER PREGNANT: After the birth of the child you are expecting now, how long would you like to wait before the birth of another child?

MONTHS ____
YEARS ____

SOON/NOW 993 (GO TO 510)
SAYS SHE CANNOT GET PREGNANT 994 (GO TO 514)
AFTER MARRIAGE 995 (GO TO 509)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 996 (GO TO 508)
DOESN'T KNOW 998 (GO TO 508)
Categories
Value Category
00 Less than 1 year
01 1 year
02 2 years
03 3 years
04 4 years
05 5 years
06 6+ years
96 Non-numeric
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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 men who want to have a/another child, PREFTIMECHGPMN (MV604) reports the amount of time, in years, they would like to wait before the birth of a/another child, top-coded at 6+ years.

The related variable PREFTIMECHMN (MV603) presents the same information in more detail, in terms of months or years, top-coded at 20 years.

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