General Household Survey, 2006-07 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2007

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Reference ID

NGA_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Form of marriage (NG2006A_FMARIAGE)

Data file: NGA2006_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 175

End: 175

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h2">Part B: Person(s) present in household (for all persons who slept in this household last night)</span></p>

<p>6. If married, what form of marriage?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Ordinance<br />[] 2 Customary<br />[] 3 Mutual agreement</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Ordinance
2	Customary
3	Mutual agreement
8	Unknown
9	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 person’s form of marriage.

Universe

Nigeria 2006: Persons who are married [discrepancies: type I 2.8%; type II 0.9%]

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