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 (M_IDEALKIDMN)

Data file: PAK1991-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 356

End: 357

Width: 2

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
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
61	61
62	62
63	63
64	64
65	65
66	66
67	67
68	68
69	69
70	70
71	71
72	72
73	73
74	74
75	75
76	76
77	77
78	78
79	79
80	80
81	81
82	82
83	83
84	84
85	85
86	86
87	87
88	88
89	89
90	90+
94	God's will/ choice
95	As many as possible
96	Other non-numeric responses
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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

IDEALKIDMN (V613) reports the ideal total number of children the man would have liked to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he had actually fathered. The information is collected through hypothetical questions such as, "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?" (for men with living children) or "If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?" (for men without living children).

If the man responded with a range of values, IDEALKID reports the midpoint between those values. According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "If the midpoint is not an exact number then the number is rounded up in half the cases and rounded down for the other half." The questionnaires included space for non-numeric "other" responses, such as "Up to God."

concept

Concept

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

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