Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2004

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Reference ID

MWI_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Time wanted current pregnancy (B_PGDESIRE)

Data file: MWI2004-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 547

End: 547

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

228. 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 AT ALL 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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