Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013

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NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Fertility preference (mv602)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Valid: 3950

Invalid: 531

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	504	12.8%
2	Undecided	178	4.5%
3	No more	520	13.2%
4	Sterilized (respondent or partner(s))	9	0.2%
5	Declared infecund (respondent or partner(s))	4	0.1%
6	Never had sex	605	15.3%
7	Man declared infecund	0	0%
8	Man has no partner	2101	53.2%
9		29	0.7%
Sysmiss		531

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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