General Household Survey, 2008-09 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2009

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Form of marriage (NG2008A_MARSTFM)

Data file: NGA2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 155

End: 155

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

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 2008: Married persons [discrepancies: type I 1.7%; type II 2.4%]

concept

Concept

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