Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Zimbabwe, 2015

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website Interactive tools

Created on

Jan 23, 2017

Last modified

Jun 19, 2017

Page views

133359

Downloads

18234

Desire for more children (v605)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 21

End: 21

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All women

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wants within 2 years
2	Wants after 2+ years
3	Wants, unsure timing
4	Undecided
5	Wants no more
6	Sterilized (respondent or partner)
7	Declared infecund
8	Never had sex

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

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). Sterilized women and women who want no more children are now recorded in separate categories. In some countries, women who had never had sexual intercourse were not asked the questions relating to desire for future children, and are coded 8 on V605.

Back to Catalog