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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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Desire for more children (v605)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 23
End: 23
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All women
Categories
Value Category
1 Wants within 2 years
2 Wants after 2+ years
3 Wants, unsure timing
4 Undecided
5 Wants no more
6 Sterilized (respondent or partner)
7 Declared infecund
8 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
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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