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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2001
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NPL_2001_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Wife's desire for children (M_WIFEFERTPREFMN)

Data file: NPL2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 391
End: 391
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
512. In the last few months, have you heard about family planning:

On the radio?

YES 1
NO 2

On the television?

YES 1
NO 2

In a newspaper or magazine?

YES 1
NO 2

In street drama?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
1 Both want same
2 Wife wants more
3 Wife wants fewer
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
WIFEFERTPREFMN (MV621) reports whether the male respondent believes his partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than he wants.

concept

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