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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Ideal number of children (V613)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 32599

Invalid: 1997

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 96

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 659

End: 660

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

(HAS LIVING CHILDREN) If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be? (NO LIVING CHILDREN) If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

Question post text

Probe for a numeric response.

Description

Universe

All eligible women

Source of information

Respondent

Others

Notes

code 93 used for God's will/ choice, code 94 used for Any number, and code 96 used for Non-numeric response, while code 98 used for Don't know

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round