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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Number living children at first use of FP (grouped) (C_FP1STUSGPKID)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 445
End: 445
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
311. How many living children did you have the first time you did or used something to avoid getting pregnant?

NUMBER OF CHILDREN ___
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4+
7 Inconsistent number reported
8 Missing
9 Never used FP
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
FP1STUSGPKID (V311) reports the number of living children, if any, the woman had when she first used a contraceptive method, with the number top-coded at 4+ children. FP1STUSLVKID reports responses to the same question, without top-coding the answers.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
First use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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