Population Housing and Establishments Census 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2006

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Reference ID

EGY_2006_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Number of wives (EG2006A_0408)

Data file: EGY2006-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 155

End: 155

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 15-20 for all persons]

16. Number of current wives ____

Categories

Value	Category
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
8	Unknown
9	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.

Interviewer instructions

Table 1: Household characteristics

8. Number of wives currently married to
This question is filled only for married men of all religions.

There is one square to write a number from (1) to (4) only, since it is logical that he doesn't have more than (4) wives for Muslims and not more than (1) for non-Muslims.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of wives currently married male has.

Universe

Currently married males

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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