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Demographic and Health Survey 2013 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2013
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Reference ID
NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
The Nambia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: NAM2013-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 560
End: 560
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
602) Although you did not work in the last seven days, do you have any job or business from which you were absent for leave, illness, vacation, or any other such reason?

YES 1 (GO TO 604)
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
7 Non-numeric response
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
Like IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

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