Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1998

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GHA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Month of most recent marriage or cohabitation (C_MARLASTMO)

Data file: GHA1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 309

End: 310

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

514. CHECK 511:

MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN ONLY ONCE __ (GO TO 515)

MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN MORE THAN ONCE __ (Now we will talk about your current husband/partner. In what month and year did you start living with him?)

MONTH ____
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98
YEAR 19___
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998

Categories

Value	Category
99	NIU (not in universe)
98	Missing
97	Don't know month
96	Inconsistent
12	December
11	November
10	October
09	September
08	August
07	July
06	June
05	May
04	April
03	March
02	February
01	January

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.

Description

Definition

MARLASTMO reports the month of the respondent's most recent marriage or unmarried cohabitation. The year of the woman's most recent marriage/union is reported in MARLASTYR.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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