Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1992

Reference ID

NER_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique et des Comptes Nationaux, Direction Générale du Plan, Ministère des Finances et du Plan [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

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Current marital status (H_HHMARSTAT)

Data file: NER1992-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 202

End: 204

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

15) FOR PERSONS AGED 15 AND OVER:
MARITAL STATUS: Is (NAME) currently married/ partnered, widowed/er, divorced/separated, or single?

MARRIED/ PARTNERED 1
WIDOWED/ER 2
DIVORCED/SEPARATED 3
SINGLE 4

Categories

Value	Category
100	Never married/lived together
110	Unconsummated marriage
200	Married or living together
210	Married
220	Living together
300	Formerly married/lived together
310	Widowed
320	Divorced/separated
321	Divorced
322	Separated/not living together
997	Don't know
998	Missing
999	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

HHMARSTAT (HV115) reports the household member's current marital status. Response categories and question wording vary across surveys, as does the age range covered by this variable. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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