Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1992

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Reference ID

EGY_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Council [Egypt] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Final say on number of children to have (C_DECFAMSIZE)

Data file: EGY1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 501

End: 502

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

511. When a couple is making a decision, sometimes the husband has more influence, in some cases, the wife has more influence, while other decisions are made jointly. In your family, who has (had) the most influence in deciding whether or not to have another --you or your husband--or do (did) you have equal say?

RESPONDENT HAS MORE INFLUENCE 1
BOTH HUSBAND AND RESPONDENT EQUAL 2
HUSBAND HAS MORE INFLUENCE 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 4

Categories

Value	Category
10	Woman
20	Woman and husband/partner
30	Woman and other person
40	Husband/partner
50	Someone else
51	Other senior male
52	Other senior female
60	No decision made, not applicable
98	Missing

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

DECFAMSIZE reports who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding how many children to have.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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