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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 1987
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Reference ID
BDI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Département de la Population du Ministère de l'Intérieur [Burundi], Insitute for Resrouce 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: BDI1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 220
End: 220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
512) When you started with your (first) husband or partner, did he have wives other than yourself?

YES 1
NO 2 (SKIP TO 514)
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.

concept

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