Kenya Population and Housing Census 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2009

Get Microdata

Reference ID

WBG_KEN_2009_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

Collections

The World Bank Microdata Library

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

May 19, 2021

Last modified

May 19, 2021

Page views

13361

Downloads

612

Polygamous union (POLYGAM)

Data file: KEN2009-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 79

End: 80

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	No, in monogamous union
2	Yes, in polygamous union
3	Man in polygamous union
4	Polygamous man, 2 wives
5	Polygamous man, 3 or more wives
6	Woman in polygamous union
7	Polygamous marriage, 2 wives
8	Polygamous marriage, 3 or more wives
9	First wife
10	Second wife
11	Third or higher order wife
99	Unknown/missing

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.

Description

Definition

POLYGAM indicates whether the respondent was in a polygamous union and, in some samples, the number of wives or the rank order of the wife.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog