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Demographic and Health Survey 2014-15 - IPUMS Subset

Rwanda, 2014 - 2015
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RWA_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, Ministry of Health [Rwanda] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Wanted last child (C_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: RWA2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 590
End: 590
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
409) Whom did you see? Anyone else?

PROBE TO IDENTIFY EACH TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

HEALTH PERSONNEL

DOCTOR A
NURSE/MEDICAL ASSISTANT B
MIDWIFE C

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL HEALER D
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER E
COMMUNITY HEALTH MOTHER AND CHILD F

OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted last child then
2 Wanted last child later
3 Wanted no more children
7 Unsure
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
FPLCHDESIRE (V367) reports whether the woman's last born child was wanted at the time she got pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all. The cutoff point for when the woman's last child was born varies across samples; see Comparability.

concept

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