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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (B_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: SEN1986-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 379
End: 379
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
614. CHECK 212:

NO CHILDREN. If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

HAS LIVING CHILDREN. If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

NUMBER ___

DEPENDS ON GOD 96
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 97
DOESN'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
8 Missing
7 Non-numeric response
6 6+
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 [no label]
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
Like IDEALKID, IDEALKIDGRP (V614) reports the total number of children the woman would hypothetically like to have in her whole life, regardless of her actual childbearing, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

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