Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Nepal, 2016 - 2017

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Reference ID

NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health (MOH)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Unmet need (definition 2) (v626)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 35

End: 35

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All women.

Categories

Value	Category
0	Never had sex
1	Unmet need for spacing
2	Unmet need for limiting
3	Using for spacing
4	Using for limiting
5	Spacing failure
6	Limiting failure
7	No unmet need
8	Not married and no sex in last 30 days
9	Infecund, menopausal

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

Unmet need (definition 2) follows exactly the same logic as V624, but uses the definition of fecundity given in V625. This variable was not used in DHS II survey reports, but has been used in the majority of DHSIII survey reports.

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