Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Ideal number of children (grouped) (C_IDEALKIDGRP)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 459

End: 459

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

617) CHECK 216:
HAS LIVING CHILDREN___: If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

NO LIVING CHILDREN___: If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

RECORD SINGLE NUMBER OR OTHER ANSWER.

NUMBER___
OTHER ANSWER (SPECIFY)____96

Value	Category
8	Missing
7	Non-numeric response
6	6+
5	5
4	4
3	3
2	2
1	1
0	[no label]
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

Like IDEALKID, IDEALKIDGRP (V614) reports the total number of children the woman would hypothetically like to have in her whole life, regardless of her actual childbearing, but top-codes numeric responses at 6+ children and codes non-numeric responses as 7.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept

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

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