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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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Reference ID
SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of other wives (W_WIFENUM)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 232
End: 233
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
507. How many wives does he have besides you?

NUMBER __
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
00 No other wives
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
96 Has other wives, dk number
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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
For women who were currently married or living with a man, WIFENUM (V505) reports the number of other wives (or co-resident partners) their husband/partner had. Question wording varied across samples. See Comparability.

concept

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