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Population Census 1972 - IPUMS Subset, Housing, Economic and Demographic Survey

Pakistan, 1972
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PAK_1972_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Population Census Organization
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Marital status (pk73a_marst)

Data file: PAK1973-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 156
End: 156
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
6. Marital status

[] 1 Never married
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced
Categories
Value Category
1 Never married
2 Married
3 Widowed
4 Divorced
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.
Interviewer instructions
4.8 Marital status (Col-No.6)
(Persons of ten years age or above)

The question should be asked about them (by entered name) whether he/she is married, unmarried, widowed or divorced. The answer of this question will be written in column-6. If a person is unmarried, code "1" will [Pg. 30] be entered for him/her, for married person code "2", for widowed code "3", and for divorced code"4" will be written in column-6. This question should not be asked of people below ten years old, and code "1" will be entered for them. "Un-married person means those who have never been married," "married are those persons who are married at that time and living like wife/husband." This includes separated persons if their wife/husband is alive and they are not divorced. The widowed are those whose wife/husband is dead and still they have not married second time. Divorced means both individuals, which have been divorced or who gave divorce and have not again married. The entry of marital status will be done in regard of present status.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's marital status.
Universe
All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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