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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Time wanted pregnancy (W_CHDESIRE_ALL)

Data file: TZA1996-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1973

End: 1973

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 want no more children at all?

THEN 1 (GO TO 407)
LATER 2
NO MORE 3 (GO TO 407)

Value	Category
1	Then
2	Later
3	No more
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, CHDESIRE_ALL (M10_x) indicates whether the child was wanted at the time of pregnancy, was wanted but later, or was not wanted at all.

CHDESIRE_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (CHDESIRE_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., CHDESIRE_02, CHDESIRE_03, CHDESIRE_04, CHDESIRE_05, and CHDESIRE_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If CHDESIRE_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

This information was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then CHDESIRE_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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