Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008

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Reference ID

NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0

Producer(s)

National Population Commission (NPC)

Metadata

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Oct 18, 2010

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Dec 02, 2013

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Time wanted pregnancy (M10)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 28201

Invalid: 76607

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 110

End: 110

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you not want to have any (more) children at all?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Then	25490	90.4%
2	Later	1582	5.6%
3	No more	1129	4%
9	Missing	446
Sysmiss		76161

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

Universe

All children

Source of information

Respondent

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round