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Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2012 - 2013
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MLI_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistiques (CPS/SSDSPF), Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT), Centre d’Études et d’Information Statistiques (INFO-STAT) [Mali] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of wives/partners in man's household (M_WIFEPARNUM)

Data file: MLI2012-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 267
End: 268
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
406) Altogether, how many wives or live-in partners do you have?

Total number of wives and live-in partners__________
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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