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Nepal Family Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 1996
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NPL_1996_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Ideal number of children of either sex (C_IDEALBOTH)

Data file: NPL1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 521
End: 522
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
512. CHECK 221:
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 how many would that be?
PROBE FOR A NUMERIC RESPONSE.

NUMBER ____________
OTHER (SPECIFY)_______________________96 (SKIP TO 514)
Categories
Value Category
98 Missing
97 Don't know
63 Never thought about it
62 Any number/Fatalistic
61 Up to God/As Allah wills
60 Non-numeric response
40 40
39 39
38 38
37 37
36 36
35 35
34 34
33 33
32 32
31 31
30 30
29 29
28 28
27 27
26 26
25 25
24 24
23 23
22 22
21 21
20 20
19 19
18 18
17 17
16 16
15 15
14 14
13 13
12 12
11 11
10 10
09 9
08 8
07 7
06 6
05 5
04 4
03 3
02 2
01 1
00 0
64 As many as possible
65 Depends on husband
66 Number she has currently
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 IDEALKID (V613), which collects information about the ideal number of children the woman would hypothetically want to have in her whole life, IDEALBOTH (V629) reports the ideal number of children of either sex (i.e., with no gender preference).

Numeric responses to IDEALGIRLS (V628), IDEALBOYS (V627), and IDEALBOTH (V629) should sum to the total number of children in IDEALKID. Non-numeric responses (such as "up to God") are allowed for each of these variables.

concept

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