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Mongolia - MICS 2005

Reference ID	MNG-NSO-MICS2005-v1.0
Year	2005
Country	Mongolia
Producer(s)	National Statistical Office of Mongolia
Sponsor(s)	UNICEF - UNICEF - Funding of survey implementation Ministry of Finance of Mongolia - MoFM - Funding of survey implementation
Collection(s)	Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
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Created on	Jul 31, 2013
Last modified	Jul 08, 2014
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  • Household
  • Household Roster
  • Woman
  • Child
• Variable Groups
  • Interview and HH identification
  • Characteristics of dwelling
    • Security of tenure
    • Durability of housing
    • Cooking fuels
  • Water and sanitation
  • Characteristics of the head
  • Members characteristics
  • Education
    • Early learning
    • Early child development
  • Children's living arrangements
  • Child mortality
  • Maternal and newborn health
    • Antenatal care
    • Assistance at delivery
    • Newborn health
    • Maternal mortality
  • Nutrition
    • Anthropometry
    • Breastfeeding
    • Salt iodization and usage of flour fortified by vitamins and minerals
  • Child health
    • Vitamin A
    • Immunizations
    • Care seeking behaviour
    • Diarrhoea
    • Acute respiratory infection
    • Disposal of child's stools
  • Source and cost of supplies
  • Contraception
  • Child protection
    • Birth registration
    • Child labor
    • Child discipline
    • Child disability
    • Attitudes towards domestic violence
  • Marriage/union
  • HIV-AIDS knowledge
  • Wealth Index
  • Asset ownership
    • Income
  • Weighting coefficients
  • Others

Marital/union status (mstatus)
File: Woman

Overview

Type: Discrete Format: numeric Width: 8 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-3

Valid cases: 7459 (7459) Invalid: 598 (602.5) Minimum: 1 Maximum: 3 Mean: 1.7 (1.7) Standard deviation: 0.9 (0.9)

Universe

Women aged 15-49 years

Source of information

Variable constructed for analysis

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Currently married/in union	4535	4523	60.6%
2	Formerly married/in union	797	801	10.7%
3	Never married/in union	2127	2135	28.6%
Sysmiss		598	603

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.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Recoded variable:

Imputation and Derivation

Imputation

The variable is created from variables on the marital status of women. See makewm.sps in the data processing external documentation.