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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 1987
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MAR_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère de la Santé Publique, Service des Etudes et de L'Information Sanitaire [Morocco], et Insitute for Resource Development/Westinghouse., Minnesota Population Center
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Wanted last child (W_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: MAR1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 384
End: 384
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
466) At the time you became pregnant, did you want to have that child then, did you want to wait until later, or did you want no (more) children at all?

THEN 01
LATER 02
NO MORE 03
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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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