Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

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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Jan 16, 2021

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Jan 16, 2021

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Husband's desire for children (W_HUSFERTPREF)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 523

End: 524

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

627 Do you think your husband/partner wants the same number of children that you want, or does he want more or fewer than you want?

SAME NUMBER 1
MORE CHILDREN 2
FEWER CHILDREN 3
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
01	Both want same
02	Husband wants more
03	Husband wants fewer
07	Don't Know
08	Missing
09	NIU (not in universe)
04	Both provided non-numeric response

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

HUSFERTPREF (V621) reports whether the woman believes her partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than she wants.

concept

Concept

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

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