Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016

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Reference ID

NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Respondent has marriage certificate (W_MARCERTIF)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 312

End: 313

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

709A. Has your marriage been registered?

YES 1
NO 2

Categories

Value	Category
21	Yes, currently married with certificate
20	Yes
13	No, not in union
12	No, living with a man
11	No, currently married by custom
10	No
98	Missing
97	Don't know
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

MARCERTIF indicates whether the respondent has a marriage certificate or marriage registration.

concept

Concept

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

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