Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., 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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May 14, 2020

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Current marital status (H_HHMARSTAT)

Data file: NGA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 224

End: 226

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

(8) MARITAL STATUS IF AGE 15 OR OLDER: What is (NAME'S) current marital status?

1 MARRIED OR LIVING TOGETHER
2 DIVORCED/SEPARATED
3 WIDOWED
4 NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER LIVED TOGETHER

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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