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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: PAK1991-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 358
End: 358
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
417. CHECK 401:

NO LIVING CHILDREN (If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?)

HAS LIVING CHILDREN (If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?)

NUMBER OF CHILDREN ___
UP TO GOD, ALLAH 95 (GO TO 419)
OTHER ANSWER (SPECIFY) 96 (GO TO 419)
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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