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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2001
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NPL_2001_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Date of first marriage or cohabitation (CMC) (Nepali calendar) (M_MAR1STCMCMN_NP)

Data file: NPL2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 265
End: 268
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
126. CHECK 122 OR 124:

MARRIED ONLY ONCE

In what month and year did you start living with your wife?

MARRIED MORE THAN ONCE

Now we will talk about your first wife.
In what month and year did you start living with her?

MONTH __
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98
YEAR ____ (GO TO 128)
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
HAS NOT STARTED LIVING WITH HER 9996 (END)
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Value Category
9999 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
Like MAR1STCMCMN (MV509), MAR1STCMCMN_NP (MV509_NP) reports the century month code (CMC) for the date of the man's first marriage or cohabitation. However, this variable is country-specific to Nepal, as the data are recorded using Vikram Samvat, the official calendar in Nepal. For most other countries, the CMC data for the date of the man's first marriage/cohabitation are recorded using the Gregorian calendar. The Nepali calendar is roughly 57 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar.

For detailed information about the interpretation and calculation of CMC statistics on the date of first marriage or cohabitation, see MAR1STCMCMN (MV509).

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