2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition

Zambia

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ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0

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Zambia Statistics Agency

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husband's desire for children (v621)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

Overview

Valid: 29080

Invalid: 9366

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	both want same	10587	36.4%
2	husband wants more	8002	27.5%
3	husband wants fewer	2249	7.7%
8	don't know	8242	28.3%
Sysmiss		9366

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.

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