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Demographic and Health Survey 1993-1994 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1993 - 1994
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BGD_1993_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ever had unwanted pregnancy (W_UNWANTPGEV)

Data file: BGD1994-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 352
End: 352
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
233A. Have you ever become pregnant when you did not want to be?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 234)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
UNWANTPGEV indicates whether the woman ever had an unwanted or unintended pregnancy. The question wording does not indicate whether the respondent wanted no more births at all or just did not want a birth at that time.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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