Nigeria - Demographic and Health Survey, 2008, Fifth Round
Reference ID | NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0 |
Year | 2008 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Population Commission (NPC) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Sponsor(s) | President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - funding United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - funding MEASURE DHS Project - MEASURE - funding |
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Created on | Oct 18, 2010 |
Last modified | Dec 02, 2013 |
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Fertility preference
(V602)
File: Woman
File: Woman
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-6 Invalid: 9 | Valid cases: 33179 Invalid: 1417 |
All eligible women
Respondent
Categories
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Have another | 22762 | 68.6% |
2 | Undecided | 4142 | 12.5% |
3 | No more | 5116 | 15.4% |
4 | Sterilized | 98 | 0.3% |
5 | Declared infecund | 1061 | 3.2% |
6 | Never had sex | 0 | 0.0% |
9 | Missing | 206 | |
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.
Questions and instructions
(NOT PREGNANT OR UNSURE) Now I have some questions about the future. Would you like to have (a/another) child, or would you prefer not to have any (more) children? (PREGNANT) Now I have some questions about the future. After the child you are expecting now, would you like to have another child, or would you prefer not to have any more children?
Imputation and Derivation
Based on this question, but final response adjusted by responses to other questions (such as whether or not the respondent is sterilized, or whether she says she can't get pregnant anymore).
Others
Women who are sterilized or whose husband/partner is sterilized are coded to 4. Women who say they can't get pregnant are coded to 5. Women who have never had sex are coded to 6.