Reversing the Stall in Fertility Decline in Western Kenya

KENYA, 2010
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and health Research Centre,

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Preferred number of children (v612vlu)

Data file: Final_women_Data_ANON

Overview

vald 1977

invd 20

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 98

Questions and instructions

Literal question

CHECK Q215: LIVING CHILDREN?

Now let's talk about you again and your childbearing preferences.

HAS LIVING CHILDREN

If you could go back to the time you did not have any children and could have exactly the number of children you wanted to have in your whole life, how many would that be?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	59	3%
1		43	2.2%
2		350	17.7%
3		468	23.7%
4		619	31.3%
5		194	9.8%
6		134	6.8%
7		24	1.2%
8		23	1.2%
9		2	0.1%
10		23	1.2%
12		4	0.2%
13		1	0.1%
16		1	0.1%
20		2	0.1%
96	Other	30	1.5%
98	D/K	0	0%
Sysmiss		20

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.

Interviewer instructions

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