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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Decided first marriage: Woman herself (C_MARCHOICESELF)

Data file: NER2012-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 296
End: 296
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
611b) Who decided for you to get married at that age?

A MYSELF
B MY FATHER
C MY MOTHER
D OTHER RELATIVE
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
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
For women who were 17 or younger when they first married or started living with a man, MARCHOICESELF indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported she herself made the decision that she should get married at that age.

concept

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