Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1998

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Reference ID

GHA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Wanted last child (M_FPLCHDESIREMN)

Data file: GHA1998-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 397

End: 397

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

M213. When you were expecting your lastborn child, did you want to have the child then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wanted last child then
2	Wanted last child later
3	Wanted no more children
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

FPLCHDESIREMN (MV367) indicates whether the man's last born child was wanted at the time his partner became pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept

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

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