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

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Desire for more children (v605)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 34

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All women

Others

Notes

Desire for more children is a constructed variable classifying respondents who want more children by whether they want the next child soon (less than 2 years) or they want the next child later (2+ years). Sterilized women and women who want no more children are now recorded in separate categories. In some countries, women who had never had sexual intercourse were not asked the questions relating to desire for future children, and are coded 8 on V605.

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