Fertility intentions of high-parity Nigerian women

The dataset was extracted from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) conducted by ICF, USA in collaboration with the Nigeria National Population Commission (NPC). The survey provided information about demographic characteristics, sexuality and other reproductive health indicators among men and women of reproductive age in separate data files. The data was extracted by dropping the data of women who had less than 4 children and those whose responses to question about fertility intention were different from "wanted more" and "wanted no more" from the main dataset of the 38,000 women who were interviewed in the Survey. By applying the weighting factor to adjust for cases of under- and over-sampling, the dataset used for the study was approximately 12,202. The data was analysed with the aid of Stata 15 to examine the predictors of fertility preference among women who had at least 4 children. The tested predictors were socio-demographic characteristics including husband's desire for more children.本数据集提取自美国ICF与尼日利亚国家人口委员会（Nigeria National Population Commission, NPC）合作实施的2018年尼日利亚人口与健康调查（Nigeria Demographic Health Survey, NDHS）。该调查通过独立的数据文件，采集了育龄男女的人口统计学特征、性行为及其他生殖健康指标相关信息。研究人员从本次调查受访的38000名女性的主数据集中，剔除了生育子女数少于4名的女性，以及生育意愿相关问题回答既非‘想要更多子女’也非‘不再想要子女’的样本。通过应用加权因子对抽样不足与过度抽样的情况进行校正后，本研究最终使用的数据集样本量约为12202份。本研究借助Stata 15统计软件对数据开展分析，旨在探讨生育至少4名子女的女性的生育偏好预测因子，本次检验的影响因素涵盖各类社会人口统计学特征，其中包括丈夫的生育意愿。