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Encuesta Nacional de Salud Familiar1985

El Salvador, 1985
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SLV_1985_DHS_v01_M
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Associación Demográfica Salvadoreña
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Preferred waiting time (grpd) (v604)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 18
End: 18
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Currently married women (V502 = 1).
Categories
Value Category
0 <12 months
1 1 year
2 2 years
3 3 years
4 4 years
5 5 years
6 6+ years
7 Non-numeric
8 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.

Others

Notes
The preferred waiting time to the next birth is grouped into 12 month categories with responses of more than six years coded as 6+ years. Inconsistent and non-numeric responses are coded into one group (7 "Non-numeric"), but with "Don' t know" and missing responses in their own categories (8 & 9). In the example above of the additional response "Wants immediately," this non-numeric code is not grouped with the other non-numeric codes, but is recoded as less than one year waiting time.
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