Census of England and Wales, 1861 - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom [England and Wales], 1871

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Reference ID

GBR_1861_PHC-EAW_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Secretary of State, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 01, 2025

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Marital status inferred (QMARSTUK)

Data file: GBR1861_PHC-EAW-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 169

End: 169

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
	Marital status not altered by programming
1	Marital status altered by programming
9	Unknown

Description

Definition

QMARSTUK denotes whether the creators of the historical United Kingdom database altered the marital status as originally recorded.

The program makes the following corrections: First it alters ambiguous marital status. Then, those with an unknown marital status who are aged under 26 are assumed to be single and MARST is set to 6 (single), and QMARSTUK set to 1. If they are recorded as being a child or step child of the head of household, regardless of age, they are assumed to be single, and QMARSTUK is set to 1.

If an individual has a relationship to household head of wife or husband and a marital status of either single or unknown than their marital status is changed to married and QMARSTUK set to 1.

If an individual has a marital status of married yet is aged less than 16 then their marital status is changed to single and QMARSTUK is set to 1.

Those individuals whose relationship is given as wife or husband and whose age is less or equal to 15 and whose marital status is given as ever- married then age is reset to missing and QAGEGB set to 2.

If an individual has a marital status of married yet is aged less than 16 then their marital status is changed to single and QMARSTUK is set to 1.

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