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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
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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Desire for more children (Mv605)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 12104
Invalid: 4618
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 285
End: 285
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Wants within 2 years 2652
21.9%
2 Wants after 2+ years 2981
24.6%
3 Wants, unsure timing 987
8.2%
4 Undecided 603
5%
5 Wants no more 1362
11.3%
6 Sterilized 117
1%
7 Declared infecund 26
0.2%
8 Never had sex 3376
27.9%
9 Missing 3382
Sysmiss 1236
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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Would you like to have (a/another) child, or would you (wife(wives)/partner(s)) prefer not to have any (more)
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