Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Mar 18, 2021

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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (B_CHDESIRE)

Data file: MWI2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1291

End: 1291

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

405. When you got pregnant with (NAME), did you want to get pregnant at that time?

YES 1(GO TO 408)
NO 2

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wanted then
2	Wanted later
3	No more wanted
7	Don't know
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 children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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