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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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Unmet need (V624)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 33207
Invalid: 1389
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 667
End: 668
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Never had sex 4161
12.5%
1 Unmet need to space 3958
11.9%
2 Unmet need to limit 1558
4.7%
3 Using to space 3122
9.4%
4 Using to limit 1281
3.9%
5 Spacing failure 0
0%
6 Limiting failure 0
0%
7 Desire birth < 2 yrs 12418
37.4%
8 No sex, want to wait 2190
6.6%
9 infecund, menopausal 4519
13.6%
99 Missing 178
Sysmiss 1211
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 eligible women

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Calculation based on several responses
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