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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Dec 16, 2016
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NA - Wife's desire for children*** (mv621)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 23
End: 23
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Currently married or in union men (MV502 = 1).
Categories
Value Category
1 Both want same
2 Wife wants more
3 Wife wants fewer
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
Whether the respondent believes his partner wants the same number of children, more children or fewer children than he wants herself. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the DHS VII recode.
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