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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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Reference ID
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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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: LSO2004-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 414
End: 414
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
505 CHECK 203 AND 205:
HAS LIVING CHILDREN
If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole that be?

NO LIVING CHILDREN
If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would life, how many would that be?
PROBE FOR A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NONE 00 GO TO 507
NUMBER ___ ___
OTHER _________(SPECIFY) 96 GO TO 507
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
7 Non-numeric response
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
Like IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

concept

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