Demographic Health Survey 2010
Rwanda, 2010 - 2011
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Reference ID
RWA-NISR-DHS-2010-v01
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National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda NISR
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Ideal number of children (V613)
Data file: Woman
Overview
Valid:
13669
Invalid:
121
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
529
End:
530
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?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 89 |
0.7%
|
|
| 1 | 236 |
1.7%
|
|
| 2 | 3575 |
26.2%
|
|
| 3 | 4916 |
36%
|
|
| 4 | 3155 |
23.1%
|
|
| 5 | 801 |
5.9%
|
|
| 6 | 373 |
2.7%
|
|
| 7 | 99 |
0.7%
|
|
| 8 | 105 |
0.8%
|
|
| 9 | 12 |
0.1%
|
|
| 10 | 122 |
0.9%
|
|
| 11 | 3 |
0%
|
|
| 12 | 36 |
0.3%
|
|
| 13 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 15 | 3 |
0%
|
|
| 20 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 96 | Non-numeric response | 142 |
1%
|
| 98 | Don't know | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | 2 | ||
| 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.
Question post text
Probe for a numeric response.
Description
Universe
All eligible women
Source of information
Respondent