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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Decided first marriage: Other relative (B_MARCHOICEOREL)

Data file: NER2012-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 297
End: 297
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
611b) Who decided for you to get married at that age?

A MYSELF
B MY FATHER
C MY MOTHER
D OTHER RELATIVE
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
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
For women who were 17 or younger when they first married or started living with a man, MARCHOICEOREL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported some other relative made the decision that she should get married at that age. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

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