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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987
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MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Husband had other living wives at time of marriage (W_COWIFEATMARYN)

Data file: MLI1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 245
End: 245
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
507. At the beginning of this marriage or union did your husband/partner have other wives besides yourself?

IF THERE WERE NO OTHER WIVES, RECORD '0'. IF 6 OR MORE, RECORD '6'.

NUMBER____
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
1 Yes
0 No
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
COWIFEATMARYN indicates whether the woman's husband had any other living wives at the start of their marriage/union.

The related variable COWIFEATMARNO reports the total number of other wives at the start of the union.

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