UPHD - Survey on Social, Health and Overall wellbeing of older people (50+ years)

KENYA, 2006 - 2010
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center,

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2.2-type of marriage (v0202)

Data file: AllWavesCombined

Overview

vald 1841

invd 4050

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

2.2 How would you best describe your type of marriage - did you have a religious ceremony, a civil registration, customary or traditional ceremony or just living together?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	religious ceremony	528	28.7%
2	civil registration	26	1.4%
3	custom/traditional	1090	59.2%
4	just living together	197	10.7%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don’t know	0	0%
9	missing	0	0%
Sysmiss		4050

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 post text

1=religious ceremony, 2=civil registration only, 3=customary/traditional marriage only, 4=just living together

Interviewer instructions

[SKIP TO 2.5]

Description

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Type of Union

Universe

All DSS Residents of 50 years and above