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Demographic Health Survey 2010

Rwanda, 2010 - 2011
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RWA-NISR-DHS-2010-v01
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National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda NISR
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Demography and Health Statistics
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Fertility preference (V602)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 13656
Invalid: 134
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 523
End: 523
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 6
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
(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?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Have another 4291
31.4%
2 Undecided 172
1.3%
3 No more 4884
35.8%
4 Sterilized (respondent or partner) 68
0.5%
5 Declared infecund 100
0.7%
6 Never had sex 4141
30.3%
9 15
Sysmiss 119
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
Source of information
Respondent

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
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

Notes
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.
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