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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2006
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Reference ID
MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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May 01, 2020
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: MLI2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 481
End: 481
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
505. CHECK 203 AND 205:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN
If you could return to the time when you did not have children and choose the number of children that you will have in your life, how many would you have? PROBE TO GET A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NO LIVING CHILDREN
If you could choose the number of children that you will have in your life, how many would you have? PROBE TO GET A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NO CHILDREN 00 (GO TO 507)
NUMBER __
OTHER (SPECIFY)__96 (GO TO 507)
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
7 Non-numeric response
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
Like IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

concept

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