Demographic and Health Survey 1995-1996

Mali, 1995 - 1996

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MLI_1995_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante', de la Solidarite' et de Personnes Agees (CPS/MSSPA) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and Macro International, Minnesota Population Center

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Date of first marriage or cohabitation (CMC) (C_MAR1STCMC)

Data file: MLI1995-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

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Questions and instructions

Value	Category
9996	Not consummated
9997	Don't know
9998	Missing
9999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAR1STCMC (V509) reports the century month code (CMC) for the date of the woman's first marriage or cohabitation.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006) [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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