Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 540

End: 540

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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.

concept

Concept

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

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