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

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Sep 19, 2018

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Wanted last child (W_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 616

End: 616

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 (GO TO 407)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 407)

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wanted last child then
2	Wanted last child later
3	Wanted no more children
7	Unsure
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

FPLCHDESIRE (V367) reports whether the woman's last born child was wanted at the time she got pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all. The cutoff point for when the woman's last child was born varies across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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