Encuesta Nacional de Salud Familiar1985

El Salvador, 1985

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SLV_1985_DHS_v01_M

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Associación Demográfica Salvadoreña

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Preference and certainty (v601)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 12

End: 13

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Currently married women (V502 = 1).

Categories

Value	Category
1	Another (definitely)
2	Another (not sure)
3	Undecided (another)
4	Undecided (not sure)
5	Undecided (no more)
6	No more (not sure)
7	No more (definitely)
8	Regret ster. (anoth)
9	Regret ster.(no/uns)
10	Sterilized no regret
11	Sterilized (missing)
12	Declared infecund

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 and certainty of the preferences. This variable is created from a series of questions in the Model "A" questionnaire. Firstly, a question relating to the respondent's desire for a future birth is asked. For each possible response to this question a second question is asked, further classifying the responses to produce nine categories (1-7,12,99). If the respondent is sterilized then a separate series of questions are asked leading to four categories (8-11). The code missing is used only if the answer to the first question on fertility preferences is missing. If the response missing is used for one of the secondary questions then this is coded with the "Unsure" category for that question. Similarly, if the response is missing for the question relating to regret for the sterilization then code 11 is used.

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