[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Date of first marriage or cohabitation (CMC) (M_MAR1STCMCMN)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 262

End: 265

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

226. CHECK 214 AND 220:
IF 214 AND 220 NOT ASKED, CHECK 221:

MARRIED ONLY ONCE (214 EQUALS '1' AND 220 EQUALS '2') OR (221 EQUALS '1') (a. In what month and year did you start living with your wife?)

MARRIED MORE THAN ONCE (214 EQUALS '2' OR 220 EQUALS '1') OR (221 EQUALS '2') (b. Now I would like to ask about when you started living with your first wife. In what month and year was that?)

MONTH __ __
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR __ __ __ __ (GO TO 229)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998

Value	Category
9999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAR1STCMCMN (MV509) reports the century month code (CMC) for the date of the man's first marriage or cohabitation.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" [URL omitted from DDI.] (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006).

concept

Concept

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

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