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Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2006 - 2007
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PAK_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: PAK2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 805
End: 805
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405) At the time you became pregnant wit (NAME), 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 (FOR LAST BIRTH, GO TO 407; FOR ALL OTHER BIRTHS, GO TO 444)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (FOR LAST BIRTH, GO TO 407; FOR ALL OTHER BIRTHS, GO TO 444)
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.

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