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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996
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BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: BEN1996-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 386
End: 386
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
513) 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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