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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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Reference ID
PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/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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Preferred gender of next birth (B_NEXTKIDSEXPREF)

Data file: PAK1991-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 473
End: 474
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
604. Would you prefer your next child to be a boy or a girl or doesn't it matter?

BOY 1
GIRL 2
DOESN'T MATTER 3
Categories
Value Category
10 Boy
20 Girl
30 Other answer
31 Either/doesn't matter
32 As God wills
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
33 Some other response
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
NEXTKIDSEXPREF reports the preferred gender of the respondent's next child: boy, girl, either, or some other response (such as "up to God").

concept

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