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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2000
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NAM_2000_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) [Namibia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Marital or cohabitation duration (grouped) (C_DURMARGRP)

Data file: NAM2000-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 279
End: 280
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
509. CHECK 508:
MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN ONLY ONCE: In what month and year did you start living with your husband/partner?
MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN MORE THAN ONCE: Now we will talk about your first husband/partner. In what month and year did you start living with him?

MONTH ___
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98
YEAR ____ (GO TO 511)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
Categories
Value Category
00 Never married
01 0 to 4
02 5 to 9
03 10 to 14
04 15 to 19
05 20 to 24
06 25 to 29
07 30+
96 Marriage not consummated
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
DURMARGRP (V513) reports the number of years elapsed since the woman's first marriage or cohabiting union until the date of the survey interview, in five-year groups. The duration is reported irrespective of whether the respondent is still married or in a union with her first partner.

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