Demographic and Health Survey 2003-2004 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2003 - 2004

Reference ID

MDG_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et du Budget [Madagascar] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Age at first marriage or cohabitation (M_AGE1STMARMN)

Data file: MDG2003-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 266

End: 267

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

409. How old were you when you first started living with her?

AGE IN YEARS _____

Categories

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
61	61
62	62
63	63
64	64
65	65
66	66
67	67
68	68
69	69
70	70
71	71
96	Marriage not consummated
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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

AGE1STMARMN (MV511) reports the man's age at the start of his first marriage or union. This usually refers to when the man first started to live with his first wife or partner. According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "Age at start of first marriage or union is calculated from the century month code of the date of start of first marriage or union and the century month code of the date of birth of the respondent."

concept

Concept

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

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