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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2006
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NER_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: NER2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 461
End: 461
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
505. CHECK 203 AND 205:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN: If you could return to the time when you did not have children and choose the number of children that you will have in your life, how many would you have?

NO LIVING CHILDREN: If you could choose the number of children that you will have in your life, how many would you have?

PROBE TO GET A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NO CHILDREN 00 (GO TO 507)
NUMBER ___
OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ 96 (GO TO 507)
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
7 Non-numeric response
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
Like IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

concept

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