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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment January to December, 1983 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1983
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IND_1983_NSS38-SCH10_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, Minnesota Population Center
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Marital status (IN1983A_0405)

Data file: IND1983-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 139
End: 139
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

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Literal question
7. Marital status:

[] 1 Never married
[] 2 Currently married
[] 3 Widower/divorced/separated
Categories
Value Category
1 Never married
2 Currently married
3 Widowed/divorced/separated
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.
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5.4.1.0 Block 4.1 : demographic and current activity particulars during the week :
This block is meant for recording the demographic and the current activity status particulars of all the normal members of the household. Besides that, the information as to whether the household members are to be considered migrants according to certain laid down criterion will also be collected in this block.




5.4.1.7 Column (7) : marital status: The marital status of the each member will be recorded in terms of the specified code numbers in this column. The codes are:

never married - 1
currently married - 2
widowed, divorced or separated - 3

Description

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

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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