Demographic and Health Survey 1987

Sri Lanka, 1987

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Reference ID

LKA_1987_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 21

End: 22

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Women who would not be happy if they became pregnant (V606 < > blank & V606 < > 1).

Categories

Value	Category
1	Lack of knowledge
2	Opposed to FP
3	Husband disapproves
4	Other people disapp
5	Infrequent sex
6	Postpartum/bf
7	Menopausal/subfecund
8	Health concerns
9	Access/availability
10	Costs too much
11	Religion
12	Inconvenient to use
13	Other
98	Don't know

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

For those women who would not be happy if they became pregnant, the main reason they are not using contraception. Codes are country specific.

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