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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1996
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Reference ID
TZA_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau of Statistics, Planning Commission [Tanzania] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Ideal number of children (grouped) (M_IDEALKIDGRPMN)

Data file: TZA1996-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 368
End: 368
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
512. CHECK 203 AND 205:
HAS LIVING CHILDREN __
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 __
If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

PROBE FOR A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NUMBER ____
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 96 (GO TO 514)
Categories
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)
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
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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