Demographic and Health Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Feb 05, 2019

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Feb 05, 2019

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NA - Children at first use (grouped) (v311)

Data file: REC32

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All respondents who have ever used a contraceptive method (V302 > 0).

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Notes

Number of living children at the time of first use is a grouped form of V310, with 4 or more truncated to 4 and respondents who have never used a contraceptive method coded 5. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the DHS VII recode.

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