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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 2015
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ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ideal number of children of either sex (M_IDEALBOTHMN)

Data file: ZWE2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 540
End: 541
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
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70 70
90 Non-numeric responses
91 Up to God
92 As many as possible
93 It depends
94 No preference
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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
Based on a follow-up question to IDEALKIDMN (MV613), which collects information about the ideal number of children the man would hypothetically want to have in his whole life, IDEALBOTHMN reports how many of these children could be of either sex.

Numeric responses to IDEALGIRLSMN (MV628), IDEALBOYSMN (MV627), and IDEALBOTHMN (MV629) should sum to the total number of children in IDEALKIDMN (MV613). Non-numeric responses (such as "up to God" or simply "Other") are allowed for each of these variables.

concept

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