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NUHDSS-Marriage registration - 2002-2007

KENYA, 2002 - 2007
Nairobi Urban Health & Demographic Surveillance System
African Population and Health Research Center
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age at first marriage (meg_agefirstmarr)

Data file: marriageregistration_anon

Overview

vald 72486
invd 0
Interval discrete
Decimal 0
Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How old were you when you got married or started living with a man/woman for the first time?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 less than 1 year 0
0%
11 1
0%
12 13
0%
13 25
0%
14 73
0.1%
15 162
0.2%
16 355
0.5%
17 574
0.8%
18 871
1.2%
19 799
1.1%
20 1332
1.8%
21 863
1.2%
22 925
1.3%
23 764
1.1%
24 891
1.2%
25 967
1.3%
26 608
0.8%
27 411
0.6%
28 366
0.5%
29 196
0.3%
30 282
0.4%
31 84
0.1%
32 73
0.1%
33 49
0.1%
34 36
0%
35 37
0.1%
36 19
0%
37 13
0%
38 6
0%
39 8
0%
40 7
0%
41 3
0%
42 1
0%
43 2
0%
44 1
0%
45 1
0%
46 1
0%
51 1
0%
57 1
0%
996 other 0
0%
997 refused 3
0%
998 don't know 148
0.2%
999 NIU (not in universe) 61476
84.8%
9999995 missing:impute 38
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.
Question pretext
na
Question post text
[IF CURRENTLY WIDOWED; DIVORCED; OR SEPARATED (CHECK 2.3 AND 2.4); SKIP TO 6.1]; IF REFERENCE PERSON IS A MAN CURRENTLY MARRIED/LIVING TOGETHER, [SKIP TO 4.0]
Interviewer instructions
na

Description

Text
The age the individual was at first marriage.
Universe
All NUHDSS individuals male or female members who are 12 years or older.