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Grand Census 2013 of Population, Housing, Agruculture, Livestock, and Farming - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2013
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SEN_2013_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Declaration of marriage at civil registry office (SN2013A_REGCIV)

Data file: SEN2013_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 459
End: 459
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">B. Individual characteristics</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Population aged 10 years or older </span>
<br />[Question B41 and B42 were asked of persons aged 10 years or older.]</p>

<p>B42. Declaration of marital status</p>
<div class="i1">Was [the respondent]'s marriage declared to the Civil Registry Office? Enter the appropriate response:<br />[] 1 if yes<br />[] 0 if no<br />[] 9 for doesn't know</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3">4.2. Part B: individual characteristics</span></p>

<p><span class="em">B42: declaration to the civil registry</span>
<br />The question concerns women with the following marital situations:
<br />00-monogamous, 01-polygamous/1st wife, 02- polygamous /2nd wife/2 wives, 03- polygamous y/3rd wife/3 wives, 04- polygamous /4th wife/4 wives, 05- polygamous/5th wife, and +/5 wives and more.
<br />Was the marriage of the woman surveyed declared to the civil registry?
<br />Record the appropriate code in the corresponding box: </p>
<div class="i1">1 Yes<br />0 No<br />9 Do not know</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person's marriage was declared at the Civil Registry Office.
Universe
Senegal 2013: Residents age 10+ with monogamous or polygamous marital status in ordinary households [discrepancies: type I none; type II 13.8%]

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Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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