Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey MICS3 (2007), Nigeria
Third round

Nigeria, 2007

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NGA-NBS-MICS3 2007-v1.2

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Oct 18, 2010

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Married or lived with a man once or more than once (Ma5)

Data file: MICS3 Women data

Overview

Valid: 18557

Valid (weighted): 18197.268

Invalid: 8536

Invalid (weighted): 6368.919

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 157

End: 157

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1370

Questions and instructions

Literal question

MA5. Have you been married or lived with a man only once or more than once?

Only once 1

More than once 2

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Only once	15905	15773	86.7%
2	More than once	2632	2407	13.2%
9	Missing	20	17	0.1%

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.

Interviewer instructions

As with MA1, we are interested in formal marriages as well as informal arrangements. If a woman was married or lived with a man and then was widowed, divorced, or separated from her husband or partner and is now either married to or living with someone else, record 'More than once'. If a woman is not currently married or in an informal union but was previously married or living with someone else two or more times, record 'More than once' by circling '2'. If she has married or lived with someone else only once, circle '1.'

Note that the question refers to periods of marriage or informal unions, and not to numbers of husbands or partners. If a woman was married to a man and divorced him, and then married the same person again, she should be considered as having married 'More than once'. The same applies to informal unions with the same person.

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