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Demographic and Health Survey 2013-14 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 2013 - 2014
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ZMB_2013_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Health [Zambia], and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: ZMB2013-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1285
End: 1285
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405) When you got pregnant with (NAME), did you want to get pregnant at that time?

YES 1 (GO TO 408 IF LAST BIRTH, 430 IF NEXT-TO-LAST-BIRTH OR SECOND TO LAST BIRTH)
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted then
2 Wanted later
3 No more wanted
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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