Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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Reference ID

GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Ideal number of children (grouped) (C_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: GHA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 379

End: 379

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

610. CHECK 202 AND 204:

NO LIVING CHILDREN (If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?)

HAS LIVING CHILDREN (If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?)

RECORD SINGLE NUMBER OR OTHER ANSWER.

NUMBER ___
OTHER ANSWER (SPECIFY) ____

Value	Category
8	Missing
7	Non-numeric response
6	6+
5	5
4	4
3	3
2	2
1	1
0	[no label]
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

Like IDEALKID, IDEALKIDGRP (V614) reports the total number of children the woman would hypothetically like to have in her whole life, regardless of her actual childbearing, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

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

concept

Concept

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

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