Reproductive and Child Health Survey 1999

Tanzania, 1999

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TZA_1999_DHS_v01_M

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National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Desire for more children (v605)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Valid: 4029

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 21

End: 21

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All women

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Wants within 2 years	913	22.7%
2	Wants after 2+ years	1262	31.3%
3	Wants, unsure timing	348	8.6%
4	Undecided	399	9.9%
5	Wants no more	907	22.5%
6	Sterilized	57	1.4%
7	Declared infecund	136	3.4%
8	Never had sex	0	0%
9		7	0.2%

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.

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Notes

Desire for more children is a constructed variable classifying respondents who want more children by whether they want the next child soon (less than 2 years) or they want the next child later (2+ years). Sterilized women and women who want no more children are now recorded in separate categories. In some countries, women who had never had sexual intercourse were not asked the questions relating to desire for future children, and are coded 8 on V605.

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