Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2006

Reference ID

NER_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Niger] 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

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: NER2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 461

End: 461

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?

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)

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)

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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