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Labour Force Survey, 2012
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2012
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Reference ID
ITA_2012_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Marital status [general version] (MARST)

Data file: ITA2012_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 88
End: 88
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
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.

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