Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 1992

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Reference ID

MWI_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office [Malawi] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Husband's desire for children (W_HUSFERTPREF)

Data file: MWI1992-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 466

End: 467

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

613. Do you think your husband/partner wants the same number of children that you want, or does he want more or fewer than you want?

SAME NUMBER 1
MORE CHILDREN 2
FEWER CHILDREN 3
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
01	Both want same
02	Husband wants more
03	Husband wants fewer
07	Don't Know
08	Missing
09	NIU (not in universe)
04	Both provided non-numeric response

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

HUSFERTPREF (V621) reports whether the woman believes her partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than she wants.

concept

Concept

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

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