MARRIED ONLY ONCE: In what month and year did you start living with your husband?
MARRIED MORE THAN ONCE: Now we will talk about your first husband. In what month and year did you start living with him?
MONTH ___
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98
YEAR ___ (GO TO 510)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
Categories
Value
Category
998
First birth prior to first marriage
999
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
MARTO1STBORNMO (V221) reports the number of months between the woman's first marriage (i.e., formal marriage or first episode of living with a man) and her first birth. For women whose first birth occurred before their first marriage, this variable is coded as '998.'