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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Number of wives/partners in man's household (M_WIFEPARNUM)

Data file: ZAF2016-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 263
End: 264
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00 No wives or partners
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
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
WIFEPARNUM (MV035) reports the number of wives or co-resident partners the man has for whom household line numbers are available or who are coded as "Not in household" (LINENOWIFE_ALL (MV034_x).

The related variable WIFENUMMN (MV505) reports the number of wives or partners the man currently has.

concept

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