Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Woman's current marital or union status (W_MARSTAT)

Data file: TZA2015-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories

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

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

Name	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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