Percentage of women and men who declare, that if they could go back to the time when they did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in their whole life, a specific number of children.
Population base: All women or men (IR file, MR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerators: Number of women (or men) who state that their ideal number of children is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or more, or give a non-numeric response (v613/mv613 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-90, 96-99, respectively)
Denominator: All women age 15-49 or all men (age range varies by survey)
Variables: IR file, MR file.
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v613 |
Desire for more children (women) |
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v005 |
Woman’s individual sample weight |
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mv613 |
Desire for more children (men) |
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mv005 |
Man’s individual sample weight |
Numerators are divided by the denominator and multiplied by 100.
Missing information on ideal number of children is considered as a non-numeric response and is included in that category of numerator and is in the denominator for all categories.
The ideal number of children is defined as the number of children that a woman or man would have if they could go back to the time when they did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in their whole life. The ideal number of children reported has been shown to be affected by the actual number of living children and so the ideal number of children is typically presented by number of living children. The number of living children presented in DHS tables also includes any current pregnancy in the count of living children.
DHS-7 Tabulation plan: Table 6.3
API Indicator IDs:
Women:
PR_IDLC_W_ID0, PR_IDLC_W_ID1, PR_IDLC_W_ID2, PR_IDLC_W_ID3, PR_IDLC_W_ID4, PR_IDLC_W_ID5, PR_IDLC_W_ID6, PR_IDLC_W_IDN
Men:
PR_IDLC_M_ID0, PR_IDLC_M_ID1, PR_IDLC_M_ID2, PR_IDLC_M_ID3, PR_IDLC_M_ID4, PR_IDLC_M_ID5, PR_IDLC_M_ID6, PR_IDLC_M_IDN
Mean ideal number of children for all women and men or for currently married or in union women or men.
Population base: All women (or men) or currently married or in union women (or men) (IR file,
MR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerator: Sum of the ideal number of children for all women (v613) or men (mv613), or for currently married or in union women (v502 = 1) or men (mv502 = 1) excluding non-numeric responses to the ideal number of children (women: v613 <= 90; men: mv613 <= 90). For men, this indicator may be restricted to men age 15-49 (mv012 in 15:49)
Denominator: All women or men, currently married or in union women (v502 = 1) or men (mv502 = 1). For men, this indicator may be restricted to men age 15-49 (mv012 in 15:49)
Variables: IR file, MR file.
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v613 |
Ideal number of children (women) |
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v005 |
Woman’s individual sample weight |
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mv613 |
Ideal number of children (men) |
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mv005 |
Man’s individual sample weight |
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mv012 |
Age in 5-year groups (men) |
Numerator is divided by the denominator.
Missing information on ideal number of children is excluded from both the numerator and denominator.
The ideal number of children is defined as the number of children that a woman or man would have if they could go back to the time when they did not have any children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in their whole life. The ideal number of children reported has been shown to be affected by the actual number of living children and so the ideal number of children is typically presented by number of living children. The number of living children presented in DHS tables also includes any current pregnancy in the count of living children.
DHS-7 Tabulation plan: Tables 6.3, 6.4 and 15.15
API Indicator IDs:
Women:
PR_IDLC_W_MNA, PR_MIDL_W_MNA, PR_IDLC_W_MNM
Men:
PR_IDLC_M_MNA, PR_IDLC_M_MNM, PR_IDLC_M_M5A