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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2008 - 2009
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MDG_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Industrie [Madagascar] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: MDG2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1220
End: 1220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405. At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1 (MOST RECENT BIRTH, GO TO 407; OTHERS, GO TO 432)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (MOST RECENT BIRTH, GO TO 407; OTHERS, GO TO 432)
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted then
2 Wanted later
3 No more wanted
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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