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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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Ideal number of girls (M_IDEALGIRLSMN)

Data file: LSO2009-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 522
End: 523
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
509 How many of these children would you like to be boys, how many would you like to be girls and for how many would the sex not matter?

NUMBER OF BOYS _____
NUMBER OF GIRLS _____
NUMBER OF EITHER SEX _____
OTHER 96
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
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21 21
22 22
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24 24
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27 27
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29 29
30 30
31 31
32 32
33 33
34 34
35 35
36 36
37 37
38 38
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40 40
41 41
42 42
43 43
44 44
45 45
46 46
47 47
48 48
49 49
50 50
51 51
52 52
53 53
54 54
90 Non-numeric responses
91 Up to God
92 As many as possible
93 It depends
94 No preference
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
Based on a follow-up question to IDEALKIDMN (MV613), which collects information about the ideal number of children the man would hypothetically want to have in his whole life, IDEALGIRLSMN reports how many of these children would ideally be girls.

Numeric responses to IDEALGIRLSMN (MV628), IDEALBOYSMN (MV627), and IDEALBOTHMN (MV629) should sum to the total number of children in IDEALKIDMN (MV613). Non-numeric responses (such as "up to God" or simply "Other") are allowed for each of these variables.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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