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Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2003
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KEN_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], Ministry of Health [Kenya], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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First husband younger, same age, or older (B_HUS1STRELAGE)

Data file: KEN2003-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 288
End: 289
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
513B. When you first got married or lived with a man, was the man younger, about the same age or older than you?

IF OLDER: Do you think he was less than 10 years older than you or 10 or more years older than you?

YOUNGER 1
ABOUT THE SAME AGE 2
OLDER: LESS THAN 10 YEARS 3
OLDER: 10 YEARS OR MORE 4
OLDER: DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH 5
DOES NOT KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
99 NIU (not in universe)
98 Missing
97 Don’t know
33 Older, don't know by how much
32 10 or more years older
31 Less than 10 years older
30 Older
20 About the same age
10 Younger
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 women who have ever been married or lived with a man, HUS1STRELAGE indicates whether, at the time of her first marriage/union, her husband/partner was younger, about the same age, or older than she was.

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