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Housing and Population Census 1980-81 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1981
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PAK_1981_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Population Census Organization, Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Marital status (PK1981A_0404)

Data file: PAK1981-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 74
End: 74
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
6. Marital status

[] 1 Never married
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced
Categories
Value Category
1 Never married
2 Married
3 Widowed
4 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
2.4.7. Column number 7 - Marital Status

Marital status of every person of twelve years age or more will be entered. The marital status is of the following four types:

[] 1 Unmarried (single). If a person has never married then for him/her the code number "1" will be given. For persons of less then twelve years also the code number "1" will be given.
[] 2 Married. This includes all persons who are married. All such couples which are living separately will also be included. The widowed women or widower males, who have married a second time will also be included. Code number "2" will be written for married persons.
[] 3 Widower/widowed. If husband of any women or wife of a husband has died and he/she had not married again then code number "3" will be written for him/her.
[] 4 Divorced. If someone has been divorced and has not been married again, code number "4" will be written for him/her.




[Questions 4.2.20 - 4.2.22: for married/widow/divorced women]

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's marital status.
Universe
All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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