Population and Housing Census 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Viet Nam, 1999

Reference ID

VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Marital status (VN1999A_0425)

Data file: VNM1999-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 203

End: 203

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Persons born before 4/1986 (13 years old or over) answer the following questions:

15. What is the marital status of (Name)?

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

Categories

Value	Category
1	Single
2	Married
3	Widowed
4	Divorced
5	Separated
8	Not reported
9	NIU (not in universe)

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

Questions 13 to 18: Only ask persons who were born before April, 1986 (aged 13 years and older) (Persons who were born in 1986 and do not have month of birth in question 4 should also answer these questions).

Question 15: What is the marital status of (name)?

A person's marital status can be in one of five categories, as below:

1. Single, never married: persons who have never been married and never cohabited with a person of opposite sex.

Note: Single persons may have children.

2. Married: persons who are recognized as having a spouse by law or local customs or are cohabiting with a person of the opposite sex.

3. Widowed: Persons whose spouse passed away and are currently not remarried. If a person has 2 or more spouses and one of them passed away, that person is not considered as "widowed". Interviewers should count them as "married".

4. Divorced: Persons previously married but are currently recognized as divorce by law and have not remarried.

5. Separated: Persons who are actually married but do not consider themselves in married union.

Note: Interviewers need to differentiate between separated persons from those who live far distance from their spouses, for example: on business trip, work far from home for a long time. These persons are still considered as "married".

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Persons age 13+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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