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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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Time wanted current pregnancy (C_PGDESIRE)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 507
End: 507
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
228 At the time you became pregnant 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
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Then
2 Later
3 Not at all
4 Up to God
7 Don't know/Not sure
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 women who are currently pregnant, PGDESIRE (V225) reports whether, at the time of becoming pregnant, the woman wanted her pregnancy then, later, or not at all.

concept

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