Population Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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Reference ID

EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Number of wives (EG1996A_0420)

Data file: EGY1996-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 168

End: 168

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

14. Number or current wives ____

Categories

Value	Category
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
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

The number of current wives column No.(14)
Record for the married male the number of his current wives at the time of enumeration and the female that is contractually married is counted within this number. Put (-) in any of the following cases:

for male (18 years and over) and never married
for all female even those who are less than marriage age
for male less than (18 years) and never married write underage

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of wives currently married male has.

Universe

Currently married males

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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