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Demographic and Health Survey 2018

Zambia, 2018 - 2019
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ZMB_2018_DHS_v01_M
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Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats), Ministry of Health
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Desired time would have waited (m11)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 74
End: 76
Width: 3
Range: 101 - 998
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Women who wanted the child later (M10 = 2).
Categories
Value Category
101 Months: 1
199 Months: number missing
201 Years: 1
299 Years: number missing
998 Don't know
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.

Others

Notes
For women who wanted the child later, how much longer the respondent would have preferred to wait. The first digit gives the units in which the respondent gave her answer, code 1 indicates a response in months, code 2 in years, with 9 meaning a special answer was given. The last two digits give the time in the units given. Any value for time greater than 90 is a special answer.
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