Nigeria - Harmonised Nigeria Living Standards Survey 2009, First Round

Reference ID

NGA-NBS-HNLSS-2009-v1.0

Year

2008 - 2009

Country

Nigeria

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)

Sponsor(s)

Federal Government of Nigeria - FGN - Funding
World Bank - WB - Funding
Department of International Development - DFID - Funding
United Nations Children's Funds - UNICEF - Funding

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Aug 29, 2012

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Marital status (S106)
File: Household Roaster

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Invalid: ?

Valid cases: 226669
Invalid: 0

Source of information

For each person 12 years old and over

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Married (monogamous)	144368	63.7%
2	Married (polygamous)	1229	0.5%
3	Informal or loose union	1398	0.6%
4	Divorced	1073	0.5%
5	Separated	2170	1.0%
6	Widowed	9019	4.0%
7	Never married	67412	29.7%

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.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status

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IF Q6 = 7 GO TO Q9