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[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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Number of wives/partners in man's household (M_WIFEPARNUM)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 273
End: 274
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215. In total, how many wives do you have?

NUMBER OF WIVES __ __
DON'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
00 No wives or partners
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
98 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
WIFEPARNUM (MV035) reports the number of wives or co-resident partners the man has for whom household line numbers are available or who are coded as "Not in household" (LINENOWIFE_ALL (MV034_x).

The related variable WIFENUMMN (MV505) reports the number of wives or partners the man currently has.

concept

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