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

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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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