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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Husbands desire for children
(V621)
File: Woman
File: Woman
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-8 Invalid: 9 | Valid cases: 23735 Invalid: 10861 |
Women who are currently married/living with a man, and neither person is sterilized (V502=1 and V312<>6:7)
Respondent
Categories
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Both want same | 7745 | 32.6% |
2 | Husband wants more | 7391 | 31.1% |
3 | Husband wants fewer | 648 | 2.7% |
8 | Dk | 7951 | 33.5% |
9 | Missing | 127 | |
Sysmiss | 10734 |
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
Does your husband/partner want the same number of children that you want, or does he want more or fewer than you want?