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General Survey of the Population and Housing 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 2012
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CIV_1998_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Planning, Department of Statistics, National Census Committee, IPUMS
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Marital status (CI1998A_MARST)

Data file: CIV1998_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 268
End: 269
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Residents of age 12 years and over</span>
<br />[Question 34 and 35 are asked of resident persons age 12+.]</p>

<p>34. Marital status</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Single (c)<br />[] 2 Cohabiting/common-law marriage (ul)<br />[] 3 Married to a woman without a co-wife, with 1 co-wife, 2 co-wives, etc. (follow the instructions in the manual) (m1, m2, m3, m4)<br />[] 7 Separated or divorced (sd)<br />[] 8 Widowed (v)</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Single
02 Cohabiting or common-law marriage
03 Monogamous union, married to one wife
04 Polygamous union, married to two wives or to one wife and one co-wife
05 Polygamous union, married to three wives or to one wife and two co-wives
06 Polygamous union, married to four wives or more, or to one wife and three or more co-wives
07 Separated or divorced
08 Widowed
98 Unknown
99 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
This variable indicates the marital status.
Universe
Côte d'Ivoire 1998: Residents age 12+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.4%]

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