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

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 506

End: 506

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

408. CHECK 203 AND 205:

HAS LIVING CHILDREN (a. 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?)

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

NONE 00 (GO TO 501)
NUMBER __ __
OTHER (SPECIFY)____________96 (GO TO 501)

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6+
7	Non-numeric response
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

Like IDEALKIDMN, IDEALKIDGRPMN (MV614) reports the total number of children the man would hypothetically like to have in his whole life, regardless of how many children he actually had, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

concept

Concept

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

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