Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

Reference ID

LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1105

End: 1105

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

405 At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1 (GO TO 407 FOR LAST BIRTH; GO TO 423 FOR ALL OTHERS)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 407 FOR LAST BIRTH; GO TO 423 FOR ALL OTHERS)

Value	Category
1	Wanted then
2	Wanted later
3	No more wanted
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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