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

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Month of first marriage or cohabitation (M_MAR1STMOMN)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 256
End: 257
Width: 2
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
Categories
Value Category
01 January
02 February
03 March
04 April
05 May
06 June
07 July
08 August
09 September
10 October
11 November
12 December
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
For men who have ever been married or lived with a woman, MAR1STMOMN (MV507) reports the month of their first marriage or (for most samples) unmarried cohabitation. The year of the man's first marriage/union is reported in MAR1STYRMN (MV508).

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