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1989 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1989
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VNM_1989_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1989 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Marital status (VN1989A_MARST)

Data file: VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 174
End: 174
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="VN89A412 VN89A413 VN89A414 VN89A415 VN89A416 VN89A417 VN89A418 VN89A419 VN89A420"><span class="em">For persons born on or before 1-4-1984 [it should say 1976] (aged 13 and over) answer following questions</span> [applies to questions 9 to 13]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A414">10. Marital status<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Single<br />[] 2 Married<br />[] 3 Widowed<br />[] 4 Divorced<br />[] 5 Separated</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Single
2 Married
3 Widowed
4 Divorced
5 Separated
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
<svar v="VN89A412 VN89A413 VN89A414 VN89A415 VN89A416 VN89A417 VN89A418 VN89A419 VN89A420"><span class="em">Persons born before April 1st, 1976 (aged 13 and older) answer this question.</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A414"><span class="h3">10. Marital status</span><br /><span class="em">Persons borne before April 1st, 1976 answer this question.</span><br /><br /><span class="ital">Single: </span>single persons are never married, including those who are single mothers/fathers.<br /><span class="ital">Married: </span>married persons are those who currently have a wife or a husband. They are in any of the following situations:<br /><div class="i1">Having a marriage certificate<br />Having a wedding ceremony<br />Do not have a marriage certificate or had an organized wedding ceremony, but they publicly live together in the same house.</div><br /><span class="ital">Widowed: </span>persons who their husband/wife already passed away and they have not married another person.<br /><span class="ital">Divorced: </span>persons who were previously married, but already separated and finalized their marriage by a court order, and are currently not marry to anyone.<br /><div class="i1">Note: persons who were widowed or divorced and are currently married are defined as "married".</div><br /><span class="ital">Separated: </span>persons who are currently married and live separately due to some reasons (e.g. waiting for divorced paperwork, the wife/husband is living abroad as a refugee, etc.).<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the marital status.
Universe
Vietnam 1989: Persons age 13+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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