Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993

Reference ID

BFA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Desire for more children (C_KIDDESIRE)

Data file: BFA1993-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 10 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
10	Wants more children
11	Wants within 2 years
12	Wants after 2+ years
13	Wants, unsure timing
30	Undecided
40	Wants no more
50	Fatalistic response
51	Up to God
60	Not at risk of pregnancy
61	Sterilized
62	Declared infecund
63	Never had sex
98	Unknown
99	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Description

Definition

KIDDESIRE (V605) is a constructed variable that distinguishes between women who want another child soon (in less than two years), who want another child later (in 2+ years), who want no more children, and who aren't sure (about timing or about the number of children desired).

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

The construction of this variable has changed across phases of the DHS and varies across countries (only sometimes distinguishing between groups of women not at risk of pregnancy due to sterilization, infecundity, or virginity). To maximize comparability across samples, IPUMS-DHS employs composite coding. Women who want more children share a common first digit of 1, women not at risk of pregnancy share a common first digit of 6, and detail present in only some samples is specified in the code's second digit.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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