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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Rwanda, 1992
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RWA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Office National de la Population [Rwanda] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Wife's desire for children (M_WIFEFERTPREFMN)

Data file: RWA1992-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 345
End: 345
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
308) Do you think your spouse(s)/wife/wives wants the same number of children that you want, more, or fewer than you want? [NOTE: QUESTION IS LISTED AS '308' IN ORIGINAL QUESTIONNAIRE, BUT WAS MOST LIKELY INTENDED TO BE '307']

SAME 1
MORE 2
LESS 3
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
1 Both want same
2 Wife wants more
3 Wife wants fewer
7 Don't know
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
WIFEFERTPREFMN (MV621) reports whether the male respondent believes his partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than he wants.

concept

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