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Demographic and Health Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M
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Department of Health, Medical Research Council
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Reason regrets sterilization (v618)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 32
End: 32
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Women who are sterilized or whose partners are sterilized (V312 = 6 or V312 = 7).
Categories
Value Category
0 No regret
1 Respondent wants another
2 Partner wants another
3 Side effects
4 Child died
6 Other reason
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
Regret for sterilization records whether the respondent regretted the sterilization and, if so, the reason she regretted the sterilization. The category child died has been added to this variable.
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