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Demographic and Health Survey 2016-2017

Maldives, 2016 - 2017
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MDV_2016_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health (MOH)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Fertility preference (v602)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 18
End: 18
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 6
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All women.
Categories
Value Category
1 Have another
2 Undecided
3 No more
4 Sterilized (respondent or partner)
5 Declared infecund
6 Never had sex
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.

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Notes
The “Fertility preferences” come primarily from a single question in the DHS V and DHS VII questionnaires. Women who respond that they want another child, but when asked when they would like the next child, respond that they cannot get pregnant, are classified in the "declared infecund category", and not in the "Wants another" category. These women can be identified in variable V616, where the original response to the question asking how long they would like to wait before having another child is recorded. In some countries, women who had never had sexual intercourse were not asked the questions relating to desire for future children, and are coded 6 on V602.
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