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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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Jan 16, 2021
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (W_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

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

Questions and instructions

Literal question
614 CHECK 216:

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 life, how many would that be?

NO LIVING CHILDREN: If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

PROBE FOR A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NUMBER 00 (GO TO 616)
NUMBER ___ ____
OTHER ______________(SPECIFY) 96 (GO TO 616)
Categories
Value Category
8 Missing
7 Non-numeric response
6 6+
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 [no label]
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 IDEALKID, IDEALKIDGRP (V614) reports the total number of children the woman would hypothetically like to have in her whole life, regardless of her actual childbearing, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

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