Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), 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: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1368

End: 1368

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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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