Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

Aug 23, 2018

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Man's current marital or union status (C_MARSTATMN)

Data file: MWI2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 253

End: 254

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

403. What is your marital status now: are you widowed, divorced or separated?

WIDOWED 1 (GO TO 410)
DIVORCED 2 (GO TO 410)
SEPARATED 3 (GO TO 410)

Categories

Value	Category
00	Never married
10	Married or living together
11	Married
12	Living together
20	Formerly in union
21	Widowed
22	Divorced
23	Separated/not living together
98	Missing

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

MARSTATMN (MV501) reports the man's current marital status. Response categories and question wording vary across surveys. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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