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Demographic Health Survey 2005

Rwanda, 2005
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Reference ID
RWA-NISR-DHS-2005-v01
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National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
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Demography and Health Statistics
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Aug 02, 2012
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Aug 02, 2012
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Ideal number of children (V613)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 11319
Valid (weighted): 11318.841
Invalid: 220
Invalid (weighted): 2.159
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 476
End: 477
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 98
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V13193

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?
Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
0 108 109
1%
1 80 77
0.7%
2 1044 1009
8.9%
3 1445 1413
12.5%
4 4617 4561
40.3%
5 1831 1890
16.7%
6 1178 1185
10.5%
7 198 208
1.8%
8 238 237
2.1%
9 16 18
0.2%
10 160 169
1.5%
11 2 2
0%
12 11 10
0.1%
15 5 6
0.1%
16 1 1
0%
20 3 4
0%
96 Non-numeric response 382 420
3.7%
98 DK 0 0
0%
99 2 2
Sysmiss 218 0
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.
Question post text
Probe for a numeric response.

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All eligible women
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