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RHS 2008

Mongolia, 2008
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MNG-NSO-EN-RHS-2008-v1.0
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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SURVEY
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Oct 16, 2025
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Ideal Number of Children (Q506)

Data file: Women

Overview

Valid: 9402
Invalid: 123
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 10
Mean: 3.377
Standard deviation: 1.088
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 10
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Has living children:If you could go back to the time when you had no children and could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life,how many would that be?
No living children:If you could choose exactly the number of children to have in your whole life, how many would that be?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 5
0.1%
1 160
1.7%
2 1972
21%
3 2792
29.7%
4 3454
36.7%
5 791
8.4%
6 166
1.8%
7 17
0.2%
8 29
0.3%
9 7
0.1%
10 9
0.1%
Sysmiss 123
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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