Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012

Reference ID

BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Marital or cohabitation duration (grouped) (C_DURMARGRP)

Data file: BEN2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 276

End: 277

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

610) CHECK 609:

MARRIED/LIVED WITH MAN ONLY ONCE: In what month and year did you start living with your husband/partner?

MARRIED/LIVED WITH MAN MORE THAN ONCE: Now I would like to talk about your first (husband/partner). In what month and year did you start living with him?

MONTH _____
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR ____ (GO TO 612)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998

Value	Category
00	Never married
01	0 to 4
02	5 to 9
03	10 to 14
04	15 to 19
05	20 to 24
06	25 to 29
07	30+
96	Marriage not consummated
98	Missing

Description

Definition

DURMARGRP (V513) reports the number of years elapsed since the woman's first marriage or cohabiting union until the date of the survey interview, in five-year groups. The duration is reported irrespective of whether the respondent is still married or in a union with her first partner.

concept

Concept

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

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