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Demographic and Maternal and Child Health Survey 1991/1992 - IPUMS Subset

Yemen, Rep., 1991 - 1992
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Reference ID
YEM_1991_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) [Yemen] and Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD) [Egypt] and Macro International Inc. (MI)., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Husband's desire for children (W_HUSFERTPREF)

Data file: YEM1991-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 521
End: 522
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
839) If your husband could choose exactly the number of children for you to have, without regard to the number of children that you already have, how many do you think that would be?

NUMBER____
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ 96
Categories
Value Category
01 Both want same
02 Husband wants more
03 Husband wants fewer
07 Don't Know
08 Missing
09 NIU (not in universe)
04 Both provided non-numeric response
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
HUSFERTPREF (V621) reports whether the woman believes her partner wants the same number of children, more children, or fewer children than she wants.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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