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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
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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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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1105
End: 1105
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405 At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1 (GO TO 407 FOR LAST BIRTH; GO TO 423 FOR ALL OTHERS)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 407 FOR LAST BIRTH; GO TO 423 FOR ALL OTHERS)
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted then
2 Wanted later
3 No more wanted
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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