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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2000
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Reference ID
NAM_2000_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) [Namibia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Ever had unwanted pregnancy (C_UNWANTPGEV)

Data file: NAM2000-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 363
End: 363
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
623. Sometimes a woman falls pregnant when she does not want to. Have you ever fallen pregnant when you didn't want to?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 701)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
UNWANTPGEV indicates whether the woman ever had an unwanted or unintended pregnancy. The question wording does not indicate whether the respondent wanted no more births at all or just did not want a birth at that time.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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