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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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Time wanted current pregnancy (W_PGDESIRE)

Data file: BEN1996-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 503
End: 503
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
229) At the time you became pregnant 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
LATER 2
NOT WANT MORE CHILDREN 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Then
2 Later
3 Not at all
4 Up to God
7 Don't know/Not sure
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 are currently pregnant, PGDESIRE (V225) reports whether, at the time of becoming pregnant, the woman wanted her pregnancy then, later, or not at all.

concept

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