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Demographic and Maternal and Child Health Survey 1991/1992 - IPUMS Subset

Yemen, Republic of, 1991 - 1992
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YEM_1991_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Organization (CSO) [Yemen] and Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD) [Egypt] and Macro International Inc. (MI)., Minnesota Population Center
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Preferred gender of next birth (B_NEXTKIDSEXPREF)

Data file: YEM1991-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 494
End: 495
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
834) Would you prefer your next child to be a boy or a girl?

BOY 1
GIRL 2
EITHER 3
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ 4
Categories
Value Category
10 Boy
20 Girl
30 Other answer
31 Either/doesn't matter
32 As God wills
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
33 Some other response
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
NEXTKIDSEXPREF reports the preferred gender of the respondent's next child: boy, girl, either, or some other response (such as "up to God").

concept

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