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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Time wanted current pregnancy (W_PGDESIRE)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 617

End: 617

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

228. At the time you became pregnant, 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
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3

Categories

Value	Category
1	Then
2	Later
3	Not at all
4	Up to God
7	Don't know/Not sure
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 women who are currently pregnant, PGDESIRE (V225) reports whether, at the time of becoming pregnant, the woman wanted her pregnancy then, later, or not at all.

concept

Concept

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

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