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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2001
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BEN_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique [Benin] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: BEN2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 412
End: 412
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
515) How many of these children would you like to be boys, how many would you like to be girls, and for how many would it not matter?

NUMBER OF BOYS____
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ 96

NUMBER OF GIRLS____
OTHER (SPECIFY)_____ 96

NUMBER OF EITHER SEX____
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ 96
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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