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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997
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SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: SEN1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 727
End: 727
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
403. When you got pregnant with (NAME), did you want to get pregnant at that moment, wait until later or did you not want to have any more children?

AT THAT MOMENT 1 (GO TO 405)
LATER 2
DIDN'T WANT MORE CHILDREN 3 (GO TO 405)
WITHOUT OPINION 8 (GO TO 405)
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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