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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001
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MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of current wives (M_MARWIFENUM)

Data file: MLI2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 252
End: 252
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405. How many spouses or partners do you currently have?

NUMBER OF SPOUSES ____
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
8 Missing
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
For men who are currently married or living with a woman, MARWIFENUM (MV505A) reports the number of wives he currently has.

The related variable MARPARNUM (MV505B) reports the number of live-in partners (not wives) the man currently has.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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