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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Time wanted current pregnancy (W_PGDESIRE)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 526

End: 526

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

236 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 WANT MORE CHILDREN 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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