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Demographic and Health Survey 2005-06 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2005 - 2006
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IND_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: IND2005-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 483
End: 483
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
506. 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 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?

NONE 00 (GO TO 601)
NUMBER _____
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 96 (GO TO 601)
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.

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