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Population and Housing Census 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1991
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MYS_1991_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Probable stepmother (STEPMOM)

Data file: MYS1991-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 52
End: 52
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 6
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Biological mother or no mother present
1 Mother has no children borne or surviving
2 Child reports mother is deceased
3 Explicitly identified step relationship
4 Mother reports no children in the home
5 Age difference implausible
6 Child exceeds known fertility of mother
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
STEPMOM indicates whether a person's mother, as identified by MOMLOC, was most probably not the person's biological mother. Non-zero values of STEPMOM explain why it is probable that the person's mother was a step- or adopted mother. A value of 0 indicates no likely stepmother because (1) the mother identified in MOMLOC was probably the biological mother or (2) there is no mother of this person present in the household.

The codes for STEPMOM are as follows:

0 = Biological mother or no mother of this person present in household.
1 = Mother has no children borne or surviving.
2 = Child reports mother is deceased.
3 = Explicitly identified relationship (stepchild, adopted child, child of unmarried partner, stepchild/child-in-law).
4 = Mother reports no children in the home.
5 = Age difference between mother and child was less than 12 or greater than 54 years.
6 = Child exceeds known fertility of mother.

See PARRULE for a description of the linking process.

Users should note that there are many stepmothers and adopted mothers in the population that cannot be identified with information available in the censuses. Therefore, STEPMOM will always under-represent their actual number in the population.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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