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XIV Recenseamento Geral da População e IV Recenseamento Geral da Habitação 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 2001
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PRT_2001_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 [general version] (MARST)

Data file: PRT2001-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 79
End: 79
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Single/never married
2 Married/in union
3 Separated/divorced/spouse absent
4 Widowed
9 Unknown/missing
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.

Description

Definition
[program universe for et,mz samples.

MARST describes the person's current marital status according to law or custom. Individuals who remarried should report the status relevant to their most recent marriage. Census instructions rarely explicitly limit marital status to strictly legal unions.

Note regarding universe: The lowest age at which a person can be anything but "never married" varies among samples.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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