XII Recenseamento Geral da População e II Recenseamento Geral da Habitação 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 1981

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Reference ID

PRT_1981_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Marital status (PT1981A_0403)

Data file: PRT1981-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 177

End: 177

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 5-27 were asked of residents of the housing unit, per question 4]

7. Marital status

[] 1 Single
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Separated
[] 5 Divorced

Question 7 - Marital Status

Married: refers to the person who is legally married or living in an equivalent situation. The married condition (legal or de facto) dominates over any other prior status.
Separated: is every person who, after having been married, separated herself from her spouse, even when the separation has not been legally recognized.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Single
2	Married
3	Widowed
4	Separated
5	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

Important: Individuals not residing in the dwelling where they spend 16 March 1981, at 00:00 hours, end the filling-in of the questionnaire here.
[Questions 5-27 were asked of residents of the housing unit, per question 4]

Question 7 - Marital status

Married - By married we must understand the person legally married or just living in a similar situation but not legalized. The marriage situation dominates other status.

Separated - By separated, we understand a person legally separated, meaning that after being legally married, obtained a legal separation from a court.

Divorced - Every person who had a legal dissolution of his/her marriage.

Description

Definition

This variable describes the person's marital status.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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