XV National Population and IV Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1985 - 1986

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Reference ID

COL_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Marital status [general version] (MARST)

Data file: COL1985_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 86

End: 86

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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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

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.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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