Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Afghanistan, 2015 - 2016

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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M

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Central Statistics Organization (CSO), Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)

Collection(s)

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

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Fertility preference (mv602)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 10

End: 19

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 2147483624

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All men.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Have another
2	Undecided
3	No more
4	Sterilized (respondent or partner(s))
5	Declared infecund (respondent or partner(s))
6	Never had sex
7	Man declared infecund
8	Man has no partner
11	.C
2147483624	Missing

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

Fertility preferences. This variable comes from a single question but recoded later depending on the men’s status. Sterilized men are recoded 4, men whom the partner can’t get pregnant are recoded 5, men who never had sex are recoded 6, and men who are not in union are recoded 8.

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