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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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Reference ID
MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Woman's current marital or union status (W_MARSTAT)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 255
End: 256
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
502. Are you currently married or living with a man as if married?

YES, CURRENTLY MARRIED 1 (GO TO 507)
YES, LIVING WITH A MAN 2 (GO TO 507)
NO, NOT IN UNION 3
Categories
Value Category
10 Never married
20 Married or living together
21 Married
22 Living together
30 Formerly in union
31 Widowed
32 Divorced
33 Separated/not living together
98 Missing
11 Unconsummated marriage
34 Deserted
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
MARSTAT (V501) reports the woman's current marital status. Response categories and question wording vary across surveys. See Comparability.

concept

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