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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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TZA_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: TZA2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1237
End: 1237
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
406) CHECK 208:

ONLY ONE BIRTH:
a) Did you want to have a baby later on, or did you not want any children?

LATER 1
NO MORE/NONE 2 (GO TO 408)

MORE THAN ONE BIRTH:
b) Did you want to have a baby later on, or did you not want any more children?

LATER 1
NO MORE/NONE 2 (GO TO 408)
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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