Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991

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Reference ID

PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Preferred gender of next birth (W_NEXTKIDSEXPREF)

Data file: PAK1991-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 496

End: 497

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

604. Would you prefer your next child to be a boy or a girl or doesn't it matter?

BOY 1
GIRL 2
DOESN'T MATTER 3

Categories

Value	Category
10	Boy
20	Girl
30	Other answer
31	Either/doesn't matter
32	As God wills
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)
33	Some other response

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

NEXTKIDSEXPREF reports the preferred gender of the respondent's next child: boy, girl, either, or some other response (such as "up to God").

concept

Concept

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

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