Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Polygamous union (POLYGAM)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 92

End: 93

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	No, in monogamous union
02	Yes, in polygamous union
03	Man in polygamous union
04	Polygamous man, 2 wives
05	Polygamous man, 3 or more wives
06	Woman in polygamous union
07	Polygamous marriage, 2 wives
08	Polygamous marriage, 3 or more wives
09	First wife
10	Second wife
11	Third or higher order wife
99	Unknown/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

POLYGAM indicates whether the respondent was in a polygamous union and, in some samples, the number of wives or the rank order of the wife.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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