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)

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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May 08, 2014

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Marital status [Standardized version] (PMART)

Data file: Sudan09-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 31798

Valid (weighted): 19044318.571

Invalid: 17047

Invalid (weighted): 10155208.534

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 49

End: 50

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2921

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	13845	8313168	43.7%
2	Married monogamous	15730	9415246	49.4%
3	Married polygamous	201	102462	0.5%
4	Divorced/Separated	535	332054	1.7%
5	Widowed	1349	779770	4.1%
99	Not stated	138	101619	0.5%
Sysmiss		17047	10155209

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 & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).

Universe

All individuals 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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There is no Polygamous status for females. Generally the information about polygamous status is available only for the head (male). For the other individuals we consider those having the status married as monogamous.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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