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Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

Samoa, 2009
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WSM-SBS-DHS-2009-v1
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Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Health
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Ideal number of girls (V628)

Data file: SamDHS09rcdWN

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 690
End: 691
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
96 Other
98 Don't know
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

Definition
Ideal number of girls. Variables V627 to V629 should sum to the total ideal number of children given in variables V613. If the response to the question for variables V613 is a non-numeric response, these variables are coded with the same response. In addition, there may be non-numeric responses on each of these questions. Country specific categories for non-numeric responses may also be recorded for these variables.
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