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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996
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BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of wives/partners in man's household (M_WIFEPARNUM)

Data file: BEN1996-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 271
End: 272
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
402) How many wives do you currently have?
402A) How many women do you live with as if married?

NUMBER OF WIVES/WOMEN ____
Categories
Value Category
00 No wives or partners
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
98 Missing
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
WIFEPARNUM (MV035) reports the number of wives or co-resident partners the man has for whom household line numbers are available or who are coded as "Not in household" (LINENOWIFE_ALL (MV034_x).

The related variable WIFENUMMN (MV505) reports the number of wives or partners the man currently has.

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