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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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Reference ID
ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Number living children at first use of FP (C_FP1STUSLVKID)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 618
End: 619
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
309 How many living children did you have at that time, if any?
IF NONE, RECORD '?00'.

NUMBER OF CHILDREN _______
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
21 21
22 22
96 Inconsistent
98 Missing
99 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
FP1STUSLVKID (V310) reports the number of living children the woman had the first time she used a contraceptive method. The same information is also reported in FP1STUSGPKID, except responses are top-coded at 4+ children in that variable and women who have never used contraception are coded as "9."

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
First use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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