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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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Wanted last child (W_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: SEN1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 432
End: 432
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
225. 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 become pregnant?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3
NO OPINION 8
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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