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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (C_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: CMR2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 662
End: 662
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
713) CHECK 216:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN:
If you could go back to when you had no children and choose exactly the number of children to have in your life, how many would you have wanted?

NO LIVING CHILDREN:
If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your life, how many would you want?

PROBE FOR A NUMERICAL ANSWER.

NONE 00 (GO TO 715)
NUMBER: ___
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ 96 (GO TO 715)
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.

concept

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