Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., 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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Main reason for best interval between births (W_IDEALBTHINTWHY)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 391

End: 392

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

607. Why is this interval the best?

REST, MOTHER'S HEALTH 01
CHILD'S HEALTH 02
MOTHER'S AND CHILD'S HEALTH 03
CHILD'S EDUCATION 04
MOTHER'S HEALTH, CHILD'S EDUCATION 05
CHILD'S HEALTH AND EDUCATION 06
CUSTOMS, RELIGION 07
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 97
DOESN'T KNOW 98

Categories

Value	Category
10	Health reasons
11	Health of mother
12	Health of child
13	Health of mother and child
20	Education reasons
21	Education of children
22	Health of mother, education of child
23	Health and education of child
30	Cultural reasons
31	Custom and religion
80	Other reasons
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

IDEALBTHINTWHY reports the main reason why the respondent believes the amount of time reported in IDEALBTHINT (V615) is the best number of months or years between births.

concept

Concept

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

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