General Household Survey 2008
Fourth Round
Nigeria, 2009
Get Microdata
Reference ID
NGA-NBS-GHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
Metadata
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Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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- Data files
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Part K
Household
Expenditure -
Part A
Identification -
Part B Persons
in the
Household -
Part C Usual
Residence
Absent -
Part D Female
Contraceptive
Prevelance -
Part E Births
in the Last 12
Months -
Part F National
Programme on
Immunization -
Part G Child
Nutrition
Breast Feeding
Module -
Part H Deaths
in the Last 12
Months -
Part I Health
for all Persons
in the
Household -
Part J
Household
Enterprise
Marital status (B5)
Data file: Part B Persons in the Household
Overview
Valid:
107220
Invalid:
205
Type:
Discrete
Start:
21
End:
21
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Marital status
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Married (monogamous) | 29287 |
27.3%
|
| 2 | Married (polygamous) | 9916 |
9.2%
|
| 3 | Informal (loose union) | 252 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | Divorced | 242 |
0.2%
|
| 5 | Separated | 673 |
0.6%
|
| 6 | Widowed | 2642 |
2.5%
|
| 7 | Never married | 64208 |
59.9%
|
| . | 205 |
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.