Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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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Preferred gender of next birth (W_NEXTKIDSEXPREF)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 386

End: 387

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

605. What sex would you like your child to be?

BOY 1
GIRL 2
NO PREFERENCE 3
DEPENDS ON GOD 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 5

Categories

Value	Category
10	Boy
20	Girl
30	Other answer
31	Either/doesn't matter
32	As God wills
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)
33	Some other response

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

NEXTKIDSEXPREF reports the preferred gender of the respondent's next child: boy, girl, either, or some other response (such as "up to God").

concept

Concept

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

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