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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2006
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Reference ID
NPL_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Number of wives/partners in man's household (M_WIFEPARNUM)

Data file: NPL2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 274
End: 275
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
403. WRITE THE LINE NUMBERS FROM THE HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE FOR EACH WIFE. IF A WIFE IS NOT LISTED IN THE HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE, RECORD '00' IN THE LINE NUMBER BOXES.
THE NUMBER OF LINES FILLED IN MUST BE EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF WIVES.
(IF RESPONDENT HAS MORE THAN FOUR WIVES, USE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE(S).)

CHECK 402:

ONLY ONE WIFE: Please tell me the name of your wife.
MORE THAN ONE WIFE: Please tell me the name of each of your wives, starting with the one you married with first.

WIFE NUMBER __
NAME __
LINE NUMBER IN HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE ___
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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