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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Preferred waiting time for birth of a(nother) child (grouped) (B_PREFTIMECHGP)

Data file: LSO2004-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 522
End: 523
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
603 CHECK 226:

NOT PREGNANT OR UNSURE: How long would you like to wait from now before the birth of (a/another) child?

PREGNANT: After the birth of the child you are expecting now, how long would you like to wait before the birth of another child?

MONTHS 1 ___ ___
YEARS 2 ___ ___

SOON/NOW 993 (GO TO 609
SAYS SHE CAN'T GET PREGNANT 994 (GO TO 614
AFTER MARRIAGE 995 (GO TO 609
OTHER ______________(SPECIFY) 996 (GO TO 609
DON'T KNOW 998 (GO TO 609
Categories
Value Category
00 Less than 12 months
01 1 year
02 2 years
03 3 years
04 4 years
05 5 years
06 6 or more years
96 Non-numeric response
97 Don't know
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
For women who want to have a/another child, PREFTIMECHGP (V604) reports the amount of time, in years, they would like to wait before the birth of a/another child, top-coded at 6+ years.

PREFTIMECHGP includes women who are either pregnant or at risk of pregnancy. However, the definition of "at risk of pregnancy" varies across samples; see Comparability.

The related variable PREFTIMECH presents the same information in greater detail, in terms of months or years, top-coded at 20 years.

concept

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