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General Household Survey 2006
Third edition

Nigeria, 2007
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NGA-NBS-GHS-2006-v1.1
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National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
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Marital status (Mrstatus)

Data file: Illegal.FileName

Overview

Valid: 83700
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 23
End: 23
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
The Marital status of every member of the household?
1 Married
2 Divorced
3 Separated
4 Widowed
5 Never married
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Married 30657
36.6%
2 Divorced 460
0.5%
3 Separated 841
1%
4 Widowed 2314
2.8%
5 Never married 49428
59.1%
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
The marital status.
1 Married
2 Divorced
3 Separated
4 Widowed
5 Never married
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