Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 1987

Reference ID

MAR_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère de la Santé Publique, Service des Etudes et de L'Information Sanitaire [Morocco], et Insitute for Resource Development/Westinghouse., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Fertility preference and certainty about preference (W_FERTCERT)

Data file: MAR1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 380

End: 381

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
01	Another child (definitely)
02	Another child (not sure)
03	Undecided (wants another child)
04	Undecided (not sure about child)
05	Undecided (wants no more children)
06	No more children (not sure)
07	No more children (definitely)
08	Regrets sterilization (wants another child)
09	Regrets sterilization (does not want or unsure about child)
10	Sterilized, no regret
11	Sterilized (missing fertility preference)
12	Declared infecund
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

FERTCERT (V601) is constructed from a series of questions reporting the woman's fertility preference and the level of certainly of her preferences.

Like FERTPREF (V602), FERTCERT (V601) draws upon 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," "says she can't get pregnant," and "undecided or don't know." Depending on the woman's response to this initial question, a follow-up question is then asked to gauge the woman's level of certainty. Such a question might read as follows: "Would you say that you definitely do not want to have (more) children, or are you not sure?" FERTCERT (V601) is coded based on the woman's responses to these two questions.

concept

Concept

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

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