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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fertility preference (v602)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

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Valid: 38446

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	have another	13803	35.9%
2	undecided	2228	5.8%
3	no more	20729	53.9%
4	sterilized (respondent or partner)	874	2.3%
5	declared infecund	812	2.1%
6	never had sex	0	0%

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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