Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987

Reference ID

MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Woman's current marital or union status (C_MARSTAT)

Data file: MLI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 205

End: 206

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

501. Have you ever been or are you currently married or you live with a man?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 511)

Categories

Value	Category
10	Never married
20	Married or living together
21	Married
22	Living together
30	Formerly in union
31	Widowed
32	Divorced
33	Separated/not living together
98	Missing
11	Unconsummated marriage
34	Deserted

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

MARSTAT (V501) reports the woman's current marital status. Response categories and question wording vary across surveys. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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