Data for: "Fertility desire for men and women: Magu Health and Demographic surveillance system" – Data codebook

Permanent identifier

https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002883

Description

Dataset containing measurements collected in a 2012 and 2016 sero-survey, conducted as part of the Magu Health and Demographic System. The aim was to assess the association between fertility desire level and HIV infection before and after earlier antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation programme implementation. The study population was comprised of men and women, aged 15 years and above, who were located in one of nine villages in three wards in North-West Tanzania.

Dataset codebook

The collection contains two dataset:

  1. The ‘Fertilitydesire2012 Magu HDSS Tanzania ‘dataset contains measurements collected in the Magu 2012 sero survey.
  2. The ‘Fertilitydesire2017Magu HDSS Tanzania ‘dataset contains measurements collected in the Magu 2016 sero survey

Both datasets contain measurements outlined in the table below.

Variable Name Variable Label Answer Label Answer Code Variable Type
ID Anonymous ID number     Number
Sex Participant sex     String
    Female Female  
    Male Male  
    . Not completed  
ethnicity Participant ethnicity      
    Sukuma    
    Other    
WorkEarn Reported to earning for the family exclusively (bread winner for the family)     String
    Yes Yes  
    No No  
Smoked current cigarette smoker     String
    Yes Yes  
    No No  
Pregnant Ever been pregnant     String
    Yes Yes  
    No No  
    . Not completed  
fd_binary_mf Desire to bear one or more child(ren) in the next two years     String
    Yes Yes  
    No No  
    . Not completed  
agecategory Participant age category     String
    15-24 15-24  
    25-34 25-34  
    35-49 35-49  
residence Residence type     String
    Urban    
    Rural    
marital_status Marital status     String
    current and ever married current and ever married  
    Never Married Never Married  
    . Not completed  
educationlevel Education level     String
    None None  
    Primary 1-4 Primary 1-4  
    Primary 5-7 Primary 5-7  
    Secondary and Tertiary Secondary and Tertiary  
    . Not completed  
religion Participant religion     String
    Christians Christians  
    Non-Christians Non Christians  
alcohol current alcohol use     String
    No No  
    Yes Yes  
family_planning Has participant used family planning services     String
    Ever and currently Users Has used or is a current user  
    Never Used Never Used  
    . Not completed  
HIV_results Participant HIV status (controlled access only)     String
    Negative Has tested negative for HIV  
    Positive Has tested positive for HIV  
    . Not completed  
children Number of children     Number