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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Fertility preference (M_FERTPREFMN)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 500
End: 501
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
404. Now I have some questions about the future. After the (child/children) you and your (wife/wives) are expecting now, would you like to have another child, or would you prefer not to have any more children?

HAVE ANOTHER CHILD 1 (GO TO 407)
NO MORE 2 (GO TO 408)
UNDECIDED/DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 408)
Categories
Value Category
10 Have another
20 Undecided
30 No more
40 Not at risk of having more children
41 Sterilized (respondent or partners)
42 Wife/partner declared infecund
43 Never had sex
44 Man declared infecund
45 No partner
98 Missing
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
FERTPREFMN (MV602) reports responses to the question, "Would you like to have a (another) child or would you prefer not to have any (more) children"? The standard response categories are "have another," "no more/none," "undecided," and various categories related to not being at risk of having more children (such as sterilization, infecundity, and not having a partner).

In IPUMS-DHS, all responses in the general category of "not at risk of having more children" share a common first digit of 4, while the second digit distinguishes between the specific reasons (for example, code "41" for "Sterilized [respondent or partners]").

concept

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