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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2005
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GIN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Intends to postpone intercourse until marriage (W_POSTPONESEX)

Data file: GIN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 854
End: 854
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
520. Do you intend to wait until you get married to have sexual intercourse for the first time?

YES 1 (GO TO 544)
NO 2 (GO TO 544)
DOESN'T KNOW/UNSURE 8 (GO TO 544)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know/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
For women who have never had sexual intercourse, POSTPONESEX (V541) indicates whether the woman intended to wait until marriage to have intercourse.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
First or ever sexual experience Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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