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Demographic and Health Survey 1989 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1989
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KEN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Council for Population and Development [Kenya] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Husband had other living wives at time of marriage (W_COWIFEATMARYN)

Data file: KEN1989-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 248
End: 248
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
509A. At the time that you married him, did your (first) husband/partner have any other living wives besides yourself?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 518)
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
1 Yes
0 No
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
COWIFEATMARYN indicates whether the woman's husband had any other living wives at the start of their marriage/union.

The related variable COWIFEATMARNO reports the total number of other wives at the start of the union.

concept

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