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Population, Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996
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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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Man with more than one wife linked (POLYMAL)

Data file: EGY1996_PHC-P-H

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Type: Discrete
Start: 57
End: 57
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Value Category
No more than one wife linked via SPLOC
1 More than one wife linked via SPLOC
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
POLYMAL indicates if a man had more than one wife linked to him in the constructed IPUMS variable SPLOC -- Spouse's Location in Household.

The point of POLYMAL is to facilitate using SPLOC in samples that identify polygamy. Some statistical matching procedures expect to find only one matching record for each subject record.

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