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Demographic and Health Survey 2003-04 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 2003 - 2004
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MAR_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère de la Santé [Morocco], ORC Macro, et Ligue des États Arabes., Minnesota Population Center
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Date of first marriage or cohabitation (CMC) (W_MAR1STCMC)

Data file: MAR2003-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 276
End: 279
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
127. In what month and year did you start living with your (first) husband or partner?

MONTH ___
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR ____ (GO TO 129)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
Categories
Value Category
9996 Not consummated
9997 Don't know
9998 Missing
9999 NIU (not in universe)
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
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.].

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Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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