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[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
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Desire for more children (W_KIDDESIRE)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 663
End: 664
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
605. Now I have some questions about the future. Would you like to have (a/another) child, or would you prefer not to have any (more) children?

HAVE (A/ANOTHER) CHILD 1
NO MORE/NONE 2 (GO TO 608)
SAYS SHE CAN'T GET PREGNANT 3 (GO TO 614)
UNDECIDED/DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 611)
Categories
Value Category
99 NIU (not in universe)
98 Unknown
63 Never had sex
62 Declared infecund
61 Sterilized
60 Not at risk of pregnancy
51 Up to God
50 Fatalistic response
40 Wants no more
30 Undecided
13 Wants, unsure timing
12 Wants after 2+ years
11 Wants within 2 years
10 Wants more children
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 -- TOPICS IPUMS
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