Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2005

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Reference ID

SEN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Wanted last child (W_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: SEN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 580

End: 580

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

228. At the moment you became pregnant, did you want to become pregnant at that time, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3

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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