Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013

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Reference ID

NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Desire for more children (mv605)

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	Wants within 2 years	233	5.9%
2	Wants after 2+ years	212	5.4%
3	Wants, unsure timing	59	1.5%
4	Undecided	178	4.5%
5	Wants no more	520	13.2%
6	Sterilized (respondent or partner(s))	9	0.2%
7	Declared infecund (respondent or partner(s))	4	0.1%
8	Never had sex	605	15.3%
9		2130	53.9%
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

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). In some countries, men 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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