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Demographic and Health Survey 1993 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1993
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Reference ID
KEN_1993_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Council for Population and Development [Kenya], Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: KEN1993-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 366
End: 366
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
M519. How many boys? How many girls?

NUMBER OF BOYS _______ __
NUMBER OF GIRLS _______ __
OTHER (SPECIFY) _________ 96
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.

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