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Demographic and Health Survey 1992-1993 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1992 - 1993
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SEN_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Reason did not want pregnancy (B_UNWANTPGWHY)

Data file: SEN1992-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 336
End: 337
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
621. What is the main reason why you did not want this pregnancy?

ECONOMIC REASON 1
NOT MARRIED 2
DID NOT WANT CHILDREN 3
ABANDONED BY PARTNER 4
HEALTH REASONS 5
WANTED TO REST 6
NO RESPONSE 7
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____8
Categories
Value Category
01 Economic reasons
02 Not married
03 Didn't want child
04 Partner left respondent
05 Health reasons
07 Wanted to space births
90 No response
95 Other
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
UNWANTPGWHY reports the main reason why the woman who had an unwanted or unintended pregnancy did not want the pregnancy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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