Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2012

Barbados, 2012

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BRB_2012_MICS_v01_M

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United Nations Children’s Fund, Barbados Statistical Service

Collection(s)

UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

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Married or lived with a man once or more than once (MA7)

Data file: wm

Overview

Valid: 1266

Invalid: 650

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 248

End: 248

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you been married, lived with a man, or in a visiting relationship only once or more than once?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Only once	708	55.9%
2	More than once	550	43.4%
9	Missing	8	0.6%
Sysmiss		650

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.

Interviewer instructions

As with MA1, we are interested in formal marriages as well as informal arrangements. If a woman was married or lived with a man and then was widowed, divorced, or separated from her husband or partner and is now either married to or living with someone else, record 'More than once'. If a woman is not currently married or in an informal union but was previously married or living with someone else two or more times, record 'More than once' by circling '2'. If she has married or lived with someone else only once, circle '1.'

Note that the question refers to periods of marriage or informal unions, and not to numbers of husbands or partners. If a woman was married to a man and divorced him, and then married the same person again, she should be considered as having married 'More than once'. The same applies to informal unions with the same person.

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