Demographic and Health Survey 2007

Liberia, 2006 - 2007

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Reference ID

LBR_2006_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Feb 26, 2013

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Fertility preference (mv602)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 10

End: 10

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All men.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Have another
2	Undecided
3	No more
4	Sterilized
5	Couple declared infecund
6	Never had sex
7	Man declared infecund
8	Man has no partner

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.

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Notes

Fertility preferences. This variable comes from a single question but recoded later depending on the men’s status. Sterilized men are recoded 4, men whom the partner can’t get pregnant are recoded 5, men who never had sex are recoded 6, and men who are not in union are recoded 8.

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