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

current marital status (wom_man_q603)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN+MEN CHARACTERISTICS ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 6593

invd 10

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your marital status now: are you widowed, divorced, or separated?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	widowed	92	1.4%
2	divorced	127	1.9%
3	separated	257	3.9%
9	not applicable	6042	91.6%
9999995	missing:impute	75	1.1%
Sysmiss		10

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

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

This question is asked of a woman who was formerly in a union but is not married or living with a man at the time of the interview. Since she was in a union at one time, but is not on the day you are interviewing her, she will be widowed, divorced, or separated.

Description

Text

Individual's current marital status

Universe

All individuals (males aged 12-54 years & females aged 12-49 years) who are not in union according to wom_man_q601 and who have ever married according to wom_man_q602A