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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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Time wanted pregnancy (last birth) (W_CHDESIRE_01)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2258
End: 2258
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 Then
2 Later
3 No more
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 women who gave birth in the last three to five years, CHDESIRE_01 (M10_1) indicates whether the last-born child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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