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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Wanted last child (V367)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 17886

Invalid: 16710

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 315

End: 315

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	Wanted then	15938	89.1%
2	Wanted later	1046	5.8%
3	Wanted no more	902	5%
9	Missing	142
Sysmiss		16568

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

Women who have given birth in the last five years (V417<>0)

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round