Demographic and Health Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Ideal number of children (v613)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 20

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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All women.

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Notes

The ideal number of children that the respondent would have liked to have in her whole life, irrespective of the number she already has. In many countries it was possible for a respondent to reply to this question with a range of values, in which case this variable contains the midpoint between these values. If the midpoint is not an exact number then the number is rounded up in half the cases and rounded down for the other half. In situations where a range of values was collected, the original variables are included as country-specific variables. In some countries, additional country-specific categories are included, such as "It depends on God" or "As many as I can support" and are given country-specific codes.

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