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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1992 - 1993
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IND_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences., Minnesota Population Center
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: IND1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 670
End: 670
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
403. At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later or did you want no (more) children at all?

THEN 1 (GO TO 405)
LATER 2
NO MORE 3 (GO TO 405)
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted then
2 Wanted later
3 No more wanted
7 Don't know
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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