National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016

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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Preferred waiting time for birth of a/another child (grouped) (v604)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 27

End: 27

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

All women who want another child (V602 = 1).

Value	Category
0	<12 months
1	1 year
2	2 years
3	3 years
4	4 years
5	5 years
6	6+ years
7	Non-numeric
8	Don't know

Others

Notes

The preferred waiting time to the next birth is grouped into 12-month categories with responses of more than six years coded as 6+ years. Non-numeric responses are coded into one group (7 "Non-numeric"), but with "Don't know" and missing responses in their own categories (8 and 9). The additional response "Soon/Now" is not grouped with the other nonnumeric codes, but is recoded as less than one year waiting time.

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