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National Baseline Household Survey, NBHS 2009

Sudan, 2009
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Reference ID
SDN_NBHS_2009_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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May 08, 2014
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Sudan09-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 7913
Valid (weighted): 4725545.595
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 123
End: 124
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2708

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 263 143359
3%
2 Married monogamous 6885 4135782
87.5%
3 Married polygamous 201 102462
2.2%
4 Divorced/Separated 144 92981
2%
5 Widowed 419 249324
5.3%
99 Not stated 1 1637
0%
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
Legal administrative status concerning marriage of the head
Universe
All heads aged 12+ years
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Should not be imputed, it can be generated only for those to whom the question was asked (in other words, the youngest age at which information is collected may differ depending on the survey).
Married refers to only formal marriages (including legally married). Polygamous unions includes males with multiple spouses.
Number of spouses in household can be applied to compute polygamy.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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