XIII Censo General de Población y Vivienda 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Venezuela, RB, 2001

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Reference ID

VEN_2001_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Unidad Técnica censal (UTC), Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Marital status (VE2001A_0428)

Data file: VEN2001-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 224

End: 224

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Only for persons 10 years old and more
[Questions 20- 35 were asked of persons age 10 and older.]

20. You current marital status is:

[] Consensual union
[] Married
[] Single
[] Separated from a consensual union or marriage
[] Divorced
[] Widowed from a consensual union or marriage

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Consensual union
2	Married
3	Single
4	Separated from a consensual union or marriage
5	Divorced
6	Widowed
9	Unknown

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

3.5 Current marital status

This refers to the enumerated person's situation relating to the marriage laws and customs of the country. The person's concrete situation is investigated and not the person's legal civil status.

The following situations are considered for the investigation of this variable:

-- In union: A person of any legal status who lives in a marital state without having been legally married to the person with whom he/she lives.

-- Married: A person who has been legally married according to the law and who lives with his/her spouse.

-- Unmarried: A person who has never been married and who does not live in a marital state with another person.

-- Separated from union or marriage: A person who is separated from his/her spouse or partner and who does not live in a marital state with another person.

-- Divorced: A person who has legally dissolved his/her marriage and who has not remarried and does not live with another person in a marital state.

-- Widowed from union or marriage: A person who has not remarried and does not live with anther person in a marital state after the death of his/her spouse.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Persons age 10+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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