General Household Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2009

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_GHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Marital status (NG2008A_0405)

Data file: NGA2008-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 138

End: 138

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

5. Marital status

[] 1 Married
[] 2 Divorced
[] 3 Separated
[] 4 Widowed
[] 5 Never married

Categories

Value	Category
1	Married, monogamous
2	Married, polygamous
3	Informal union
4	Divorced
5	Separated
6	Widowed
7	Never married
8	Unknown

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 marital status.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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