General Survey of the Population and Housing 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 2012

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Reference ID

CIV_1998_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Planning, Department of Statistics, National Census Committee, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Marital status (CI1998A_MARST)

Data file: CIV1998_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 268

End: 269

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Residents of age 12 years and over
 [Question 34 and 35 are asked of resident persons age 12+.]

34. Marital status
<div class="i1">[] 1 Single (c) [] 2 Cohabiting/common-law marriage (ul) [] 3 Married to a woman without a co-wife, with 1 co-wife, 2 co-wives, etc. (follow the instructions in the manual) (m1, m2, m3, m4) [] 7 Separated or divorced (sd) [] 8 Widowed (v)</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Single
02	Cohabiting or common-law marriage
03	Monogamous union, married to one wife
04	Polygamous union, married to two wives or to one wife and one co-wife
05	Polygamous union, married to three wives or to one wife and two co-wives
06	Polygamous union, married to four wives or more, or to one wife and three or more co-wives
07	Separated or divorced
08	Widowed
98	Unknown
99	NIU (not in universe)

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

This variable indicates the marital status.

Universe

Côte d'Ivoire 1998: Residents age 12+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.4%]

concept

Concept

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