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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 1987
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MAR_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministère de la Santé Publique, Service des Etudes et de L'Information Sanitaire [Morocco], et Insitute for Resource Development/Westinghouse., Minnesota Population Center
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Months between respondent's 1st marriage and 1st birth (W_MARTO1STBORNMO)

Data file: MAR1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 231
End: 233
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
318) MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH
IF MONTH NOT KNOWN, ASK THE SEASON:

FALL 21
WINTER 22
SPRING 23
SUMMER 24

MONTH/SEASON: ____
YEAR: ____
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.'

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