Demographic and Health Survey 2010

Malawi, 2010

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MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M

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National Statistical Office (NSO), Community Health Sciences Unit (CHSU)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Husbands desire for children (v621)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 28

End: 28

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Currently married or in union women and neither partner is sterilized (V502 = 1 and V312 <> 6 and V312 <> 7).

Categories

Value	Category
1	Both want same
2	Husband wants more
3	Husband wants fewer
8	DK

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

Whether the respondent believes her partner wants the same number of children, more children or fewer children than she wants herself.

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