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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1992
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MDG_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre National de Recherches sur l'Environnement [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (C_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: MDG1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 460
End: 460
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
617. CHECK 214:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN: If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

NO LIVING CHILDREN: If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

RECORD JUST A NUMBER OR ANOTHER RESPONSE.

NUMBER __
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 96
Categories
Value Category
8 Missing
7 Non-numeric response
6 6+
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 [no label]
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 IDEALKID, IDEALKIDGRP (V614) reports the total number of children the woman would hypothetically like to have in her whole life, regardless of her actual childbearing, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

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