Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018

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Reference ID

PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: PAK2017-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1198

End: 1198

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

228) When you got pregnant, did you want to get pregnant at that time?

YES 1 (GO TO 229A)
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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