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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Months between respondent's 1st marriage and 1st birth (W_MARTO1STBORNMO)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 290
End: 292
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215 In what month and year was (NAME) born?
PROBE: What is his/her birthday?

MONTH___ ___

YEAR ___ ___ ___ ___
Categories
Value Category
998 First birth prior to first marriage
999 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
MARTO1STBORNMO (V221) reports the number of months between the woman's first marriage (i.e., formal marriage or first episode of living with a man) and her first birth. For women whose first birth occurred before their first marriage, this variable is coded as '998.'

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