Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., 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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Whether and when this child's pregnancy wanted (C_CHDESIRE)

Data file: MDG1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 875

End: 875

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

405. At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

THEN 1 (GO TO 407)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 407)

Value	Category
1	Wanted then
2	Wanted later
3	No more wanted
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, CHDESIRE (M10) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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