FSD2418 Reproductive Health in St. Petersburg: Women 2004
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Question text
If you chose several alternatives, which of them is the most important?
Questions 90 - 93 are for those, who hesitate or don't intend to have (more) children: Others skip to question 94
Frequencies
| Category labels | Value | n |
|---|---|---|
| I don't know | 0 | 80 |
| My child/children need(s) a brother or a sister | 1 | 11 |
| I want to have a daughter | 2 | 20 |
| I want to have a son | 3 | 14 |
| I enjoy watching a child grow and develop | 4 | 34 |
| Life continues only through children | 5 | 30 |
| My husband wants a child/children | 6 | 10 |
| I want to have a child with the man with whom I now live | 7 | 15 |
| Child is an important expression of love between a husband and wife | 8 | 39 |
| I miss a child in my life | 9 | 4 |
| For the benefit of Russian nation, more children are needed | 10 | 1 |
| I want to have a child, so that I would not be alone at old age | 11 | 8 |
| Children help in domestic work | 12 | 0 |
| I want to take care of a child and love him/her | 13 | 63 |
| I want to have a family with many children | 14 | 1 |
| I want to experience giving birth (once more) | 15 | 0 |
| I want to experience being a mother | 16 | 29 |
| A person should have as many children as God wants | 17 | 7 |
| A child/children give meaning to life; someone for whom to live and work | 18 | 57 |
| Children provide diversity in life | 19 | 1 |
| Other reason | 20 | 4 |
| SYSMISS | 719 | |
| Displayed frequencies are not weighted | ||
Summary statistics
| Number of valid cases | 428 |
| Maximum | 20 |
| Minimum | 0 |
| Mean | 8.25 |
| Standard deviation | 6.507 |
Study description in machine readable DDI-C 2.5 format
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