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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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Wife's desire for children (M_WIFEFERTPREFMN)

Data file: SEN1997-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 359
End: 359
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
309. Do you think that your wife/wives/partner(s) would like to have the same number of children as you would like to have?

SAME NUMBER 1
MORE CHILDREN 2
FEWER CHILDREN 3
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
1 Both want same
2 Wife wants more
3 Wife wants fewer
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
WIFEFERTPREFMN (MV621) reports whether the male respondent believes his partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than he wants.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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