Demographic and Health Survey 2010

Malawi, 2010

Get Microdata

Reference ID

MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ICF Macro, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

Page views

84662

Woman's current marital or union status (W_MARSTAT)

Data file: MWI2010-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
10	Never married
11	Unconsummated marriage
20	Married or living together
21	Married
22	Living together
30	Formerly in union
31	Widowed
32	Divorced
33	Separated/not living together
34	Deserted
98	Missing

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

MARSTAT (V501) reports the woman's current marital status. Response categories and question wording vary across surveys. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog