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Demographic and Health Survey 2017 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2017
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SEN_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], et ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Wanted last child (B_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: SEN2017-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 691
End: 691
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
406) CHECK 208:

ONLY ONE BIRTH: A) Did you want to have a baby later on, or did you not want any (more) children?

MORE THAN ONE BIRTH: b) Did you want to have a baby later on, or did you not want any more children?

LATER 1
NO MORE 2 (GO TO 408)
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted last child then
2 Wanted last child later
3 Wanted no more children
7 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
FPLCHDESIRE (V367) reports whether the woman's last born child was wanted at the time she got pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all. The cutoff point for when the woman's last child was born varies across samples; see Comparability.

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