General Household Survey, 2008

Nigeria, 2009

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NGA_2008_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)

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Agricultural Surveys

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Marital status (B5)

Data file: Part B Persons in the Household

Overview

Valid: 107220

Invalid: 205

Type: Discrete

Start: 21

End: 21

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

Marital status

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Married (monogamous)	29287	27.3%
2	Married (polygamous)	9916	9.2%
3	Informal (loose union)	252	0.2%
4	Divorced	242	0.2%
5	Separated	673	0.6%
6	Widowed	2642	2.5%
7	Never married	64208	59.9%
.		205

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.

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