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Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018
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PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: PAK2017-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 476
End: 476
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
514) CHECK 203 AND 205:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN: a) 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?

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

NONE 00 (GO TO 601)
NUMBER _____
OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ 96 (GO TO 601)
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
7 Non-numeric response
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 IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

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