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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
Producer(s)
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) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: CMR2011-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 537
End: 537
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
509) How many of these children would you like to be boys, how many would you like to be girls, and for how many would it not matter if it's a boy or a girl?

NUMBER BOYS: ___
NUMBER GIRLS: ___
NUMBER EITHER: ___
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ 96
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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