Contraceptive Method Choice
Donated on 7/6/1997
Dataset is a subset of the 1987 National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey.
Dataset Characteristics
Multivariate
Subject Area
Health and Medicine
Associated Tasks
Classification
Feature Type
Categorical, Integer
# Instances
1473
# Features
9
Dataset Information
Additional Information
This dataset is a subset of the 1987 National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey. The samples are married women who were either not pregnant or do not know if they were at the time of interview. The problem is to predict the current contraceptive method choice (no use, long-term methods, or short-term methods) of a woman based on her demographic and socio-economic characteristics.
Has Missing Values?
No
Variables Table
| Variable Name | Role | Type | Demographic | Description | Units | Missing Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wife_age | Feature | Integer | Age | no | ||
| wife_edu | Feature | Categorical | Education Level | no | ||
| husband_edu | Feature | Categorical | Education Level | no | ||
| num_children | Feature | Integer | Other | no | ||
| wife_religion | Feature | Binary | Other | no | ||
| wife_working | Feature | Binary | Occupation | no | ||
| husband_occupation | Feature | Categorical | Occupation | no | ||
| standard_of_living_index | Feature | Categorical | no | |||
| media_exposure | Feature | Binary | no | |||
| contraceptive_method | Target | Categorical | no |
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Additional Variable Information
1. Wife's age (numerical) 2. Wife's education (categorical) 1=low, 2, 3, 4=high 3. Husband's education (categorical) 1=low, 2, 3, 4=high 4. Number of children ever born (numerical) 5. Wife's religion (binary) 0=Non-Islam, 1=Islam 6. Wife's now working? (binary) 0=Yes, 1=No 7. Husband's occupation (categorical) 1, 2, 3, 4 8. Standard-of-living index (categorical) 1=low, 2, 3, 4=high 9. Media exposure (binary) 0=Good, 1=Not good 10. Contraceptive method used (class attribute) 1=No-use, 2=Long-term, 3=Short-term
Dataset Files
| File | Size |
|---|---|
| cmc.data | 30.2 KB |
| cmc.names | 2 KB |
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By Ayten Akmandor, Jorge Ortiz, Irene Manotas, Bongjun Ko, Niraj Jha. 2019
Published in ArXiv.
By Samir Al-Stouhi, Chandan Reddy. 2015
Published in Knowledge and Information Systems.
By Anisur Rahman, Zahidul Islam, Terence Bossomaier. 2015
Published in Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.
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pip install ucimlrepo
from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo # fetch dataset contraceptive_method_choice = fetch_ucirepo(id=30) # data (as pandas dataframes) X = contraceptive_method_choice.data.features y = contraceptive_method_choice.data.targets # metadata print(contraceptive_method_choice.metadata) # variable information print(contraceptive_method_choice.variables)
Lim, T. (1999). Contraceptive Method Choice [Dataset]. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C59W2D.
Creators
Tjen-Sien Lim
DOI
License
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
This allows for the sharing and adaptation of the datasets for any purpose, provided that the appropriate credit is given.