Demographic and Health Survey Phase 8 (DHS-8): Marriage and Cohabitation
Demographic and Health Survey Phase 8 (DHS-8): Marriage and Cohabitation
The Demographic and Health Survey Phase 8 (DHS-8): Marriage and Cohabitation includes 7 items from the Women's Questionnaire measuring a woman's marital or cohabitation history, current marital status or living arrangements, and the age when marriage/cohabitation first began. Navigational aspects (i.e. skip-out patterns and next question sequences) have not been included on this page but can be viewed on the original questionnaire located here.
Multi-Country
ITEMS:
1. Are you currently married or living together with a man as if married?
Response Options:
Yes, currently married
Yes, living with a man
No, not in union
2. Have you ever been married or lived together with a man as if married?
Response Options:
Yes, formerly married
Yes, lived with a man
No
3. What is your marital status now: are you widowed, divorced, or separated?
Response Options:
Widowed
Divorced
Separated
4. Is your (husband/partner) living with you now or is he staying elsewhere?
Response Options:
Living with her
Staying elsewhere
5. Have you been married or lived with a man only once or more than once?
Response Options:
Only once
More than once
6. Now I would like to ask about your first (husband/partner). In what month and year did you start living with him?
Response Options:
2-digit numeric value (_Month)
Don’t know month
4-digit numeric value (_Year)
Don’t know year
7. How old were you when you first started living with your current (husband/partner)?
Response Options:
2-digit numeric value (_Years)
PSYCHOMETRIC SCORE
GEOGRAPHIES TESTED:
Angola
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cote d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guatemala
Guinea
Kenya
Madagascar
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Nepal
Rwanda
Senegal
The Gambia
Zimbabwe
POPULATIONS INCLUDED:
Female
AGE RANGE:
Adolescents
Adults
Scoring Procedures:
Not Applicable
PRIMARY CITATION:
Demographic and Health Surveys (2019). Demographic and Health Surveys: Women's Questionnaire. https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-DHSQ8-DHS-Questionnaires-and-Manuals.cfm
Pyschometric Score:
Qualitative Research
Existing Literature/Theoretical Framework
Field Expert Input
Cognitive Interviews / Pilot Testing
Internal
Test-retest
Interrater
Content
Face
Criterion (gold-standard)
Construct
Psychometric Scoring
Total Score: 0.00/10 Points (NO DATA)
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FULL POINTS
PARTIAL POINTS NOT ASSESSED NOT APPLICABLEFor more details, see Scoring Methodology
