Population, Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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Reference ID

EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, IPUMS

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Number of wives (EG1996A_WIVES)

Data file: EGY1996_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 200

End: 200

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="EG96A091 EG96A420"><span class="em">14. Number or current wives</span> ____<br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
8	Unknown
9	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

This variable indicates the number of wives currently married male has.

Universe

Egypt 1996: Currently married males [discrepancies: none]

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