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General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1988
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SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Man with more than one wife linked (POLYMAL)

Data file: SEN1988_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 58
End: 58
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No more than one wife linked via SPLOC
1 More than one wife linked via SPLOC
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
POLYMAL indicates if a man had more than one wife linked to him in the constructed IPUMS variable SPLOC -- Spouse's Location in Household.

The point of POLYMAL is to facilitate using SPLOC in samples that identify polygamy. Some statistical matching procedures expect to find only one matching record for each subject record.

concept

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