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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2001
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NPL_2001_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Time wanted pregnancy (last birth) (W_CHDESIRE_01)

Data file: NPL2001-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1960
End: 1960
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405. At any time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, 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)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 407)
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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