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Population and Housing Census 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2000
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GHA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Woman is second or higher order wife (POLY2ND)

Data file: GHA2000-P-H

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Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 55
End: 55
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

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Value Category
0 Person is not the 2nd or higher order wife linked via SPLOC
1 Person is the 2nd or higher order wife linked via SPLOC
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.

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Definition
POLY2ND indicates if a woman was the second or higher order wife linked to a husband in the constructed IPUMS variable SPLOC -- Spouse's Location in Household. The variable does not suggest the actual marital order of wives, only their relative positions in the person order of the household as it was enumerated.

The point of POLY2ND is to facilitate using SPLOC in samples that identify polygamy. Some statistical matching procedures expect to find only one matching record for each subject record.

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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