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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Jan 16, 2021

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Man's current marital or union status (M_MARSTATMN)

Data file: AFG2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 230

End: 231

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

SECTION 4. MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY

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

CURRENTLY MARRIED 1
WIDOWED 2 (GO TO 410)
DIVORCED 3 (GO TO 410)
SEPARATED 4 (GO TO 410)

Categories

Value	Category
00	Never married
10	Married or living together
11	Married
12	Living together
20	Formerly in union
21	Widowed
22	Divorced
23	Separated/not living together
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

MARSTATMN (MV501) reports the man'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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