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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Preferred waiting time for birth of a/another child (grouped) (mv604)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 11

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

All men who want another child (MV602 = 1).

Others

Notes

The preferred waiting time to the next birth is grouped into 12-month categories with responses of more than six years coded as 6+ years. Non-numeric responses are coded into one group (7 "Non-numeric"), but with "Don't know" and missing responses in their own categories (8 and 9). The additional response "Soon/Now" is not grouped with the other nonnumeric codes, but is recoded as less than one year waiting time.

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