Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989

Uganda, 1988 - 1989

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Reference ID

UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Desire for more children (v605)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Currently married women (V502 = 1).

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wants within 2 years
2	Wants after 2+ years
3	Wants, unsure timing
4	Undecided
5	Wants no more
6	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

Desire for more children is a constructed variable classifying respondents who want more children by whether they want the next child soon (less than 2 years) or they want the next child later (2+ years).

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