Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015

Reference ID

AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Woman's current marital or union status (C_MARSTAT)

Data file: AFG2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 257

End: 258

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

SECTION 6. MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY

601. What is your current marital status: are you married, widowed, divorced, or separated?

CURRENTLY MARRIED 1
WIDOWED 2 (GO TO 609)
DIVORCED 3 (GO TO 609)
SEPARATED 4 (GO TO 609)

Categories

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

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

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

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