Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Nigeria, 2013

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Reference ID

NGA_2013_DHS_v01_M

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National Population Commission (NPC)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Fertility preference (mv602)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Valid: 17359

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 44

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

All men.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Have another	6994	40.3%
2	Undecided	308	1.8%
3	No more	1125	6.5%
4	Sterilized (respondent or partner(s))	2	0%
5	Declared infecund (respondent or partner(s))	18	0.1%
6	Never had sex	4815	27.7%
7	Man declared infecund	0	0%
8	Man has no partner	3987	23%
9		110	0.6%

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

Fertility preferences. This variable comes from a single question but recoded later depending on the men’s status. Sterilized men are recoded 4, men whom the partner can’t get pregnant are recoded 5, men who never had sex are recoded 6, and men who are not in union are recoded 8.

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