Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS), 2012, 2nd Survey

KENYA, 2012
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center

CSV JSON

year of first marriage (wom_q610year)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN CHARACTERISTICS ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 3905

invd 328

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 98 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN ONLY ONCE: In what month and year did you start living with your husband/partner?

MARRIED/LIVED WITH A MAN MORE THAN ONCE: Now I would like to ask you about when you started living with your first husband/partner. In what month and year was that?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
98	don't know	0	0%
99	not applicable	0	0%
1971		1	0%
1973		1	0%
1976		1	0%
1977		2	0.1%
1979		4	0.1%
1980		7	0.2%
1981		11	0.3%
1982		5	0.1%
1983		15	0.4%
1984		19	0.5%
1985		19	0.5%
1986		26	0.7%
1987		15	0.4%
1988		20	0.5%
1989		30	0.8%
1990		38	1%
1991		27	0.7%
1992		30	0.8%
1993		35	0.9%
1994		36	0.9%
1995		51	1.3%
1996		46	1.2%
1997		62	1.6%
1998		86	2.2%
1999		75	1.9%
2000		100	2.6%
2001		68	1.7%
2002		98	2.5%
2003		117	3%
2004		111	2.8%
2005		126	3.2%
2006		117	3%
2007		137	3.5%
2008		148	3.8%
2009		187	4.8%
2010		200	5.1%
2011		187	4.8%
2012		152	3.9%
9998	don't know	70	1.8%
9999	not applicable	1425	36.5%
9999995	missing:impute	0	0%
Sysmiss		328

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

CHECK 609:

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

You need to do two things in this question. First, check back to the answer to Q609 and select the appropriate option. Then read the question under this option and record the response as given by the woman. We want to know the month and year when the respondent started living with her (first) husband or partner. If she can't remember the date, you will need to probe. The dates recorded in the birth history may help you in probing. For example, check the date of birth of her first child and ask her how many months or years before (or after) the birth she started living with her (first) husband or partner. Note that we are interested in the starting date of her first union (marriage or living together), not the date of first sex or first birth. Do not assume that the starting date of first union comes before date of the first birth; it may be that she had her first birth before her first union. If she answers in terms of the number of years, (for example, “two years ago”), probe to find the month and year. Notice that in recording the date in Q. 610, you will record both the month and year and if one of these items is not known, you will select DON'T KNOW for that item.

Description

Text

Year of first marriage

Universe

All women aged 12-49 years who are in union according to wom_q601 or who have ever been married according to wom_q602A