Home / Central Data Catalog / GHA_2008_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [M]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
Get Microdata
Reference ID
GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
114650

Line number(s) of man's wives/partners in HH (M_LINENOWIFE_ALL)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 275
End: 275
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
407. CHECK 405:

ONE WIFE/PARTNER: Please tell me the name of your wife (the woman you are living with as if married).

MORE THAN (NAME) ONE WIFE/PARTNER: Please tell me the name of each of your current wives (and/or of each woman you are living with as if married).

RECORD THE NAME AND THE LINE NUMBER FROM THE HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE FOR EACH WIFE AND LIVE-IN PARTNER.

IF A WOMAN IS NOT LISTED IN THE HOUSEHOLD, RECORD '00'.

ASK FOR EACH PERSON.

NAME ___
LINE NUMBER ___
Categories
Value Category
1 LINENOWIFE_ALL available
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
LINENOWIFE_ALL (MV034_x) reports the line number of the man's wives/partners. These variables can be used, in conjunction with HHID to match the men - s data with the women - s data, to allow for the analysis of couples. A value of "0" means the wife was not listed as a member of the household.

LINENOWIFE_ALL consists of a set of eight separate variables, covering the man's first wife/partner (LINENOWIFE_01) up to his eighth wife/partner (LINENOWIFE_08). If LINENOWIFE_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Information for this variable was collected on all of the man's wives/partners, up to a maximum of eight. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to eight wives/partners, but no men in the survey had so many wives/partners (e.g., no man had seven or eight wives/partners). If, for example, no man in a survey had eight wives/partners and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then LINENOWIFE_08 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

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