Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997

Reference ID

SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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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Jan 16, 2021

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Reason did not want pregnancy (W_UNWANTPGWHY)

Data file: SEN1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 322

End: 323

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

621. What is the main reason why you did not want this pregnancy?

ECONOMIC REASON 1
NOT MARRIED 2
DID NOT WANT CHILDREN 3
ABANDONED BY PARTNER 4
HEALTH REASONS 5
WANTED TO REST 6
NO RESPONSE 7
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____8

Categories

Value	Category
01	Economic reasons
02	Not married
03	Didn't want child
04	Partner left respondent
05	Health reasons
07	Wanted to space births
90	No response
95	Other
98	Missing
99	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

UNWANTPGWHY reports the main reason why the woman who had an unwanted or unintended pregnancy did not want the pregnancy.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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