2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000

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Reference ID

MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Marital status (MY2000A_MARST)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 196

End: 196

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="MY00A404">C7. What is your marital status?<br /><div class="i1">(For person aged 10 years and above)<br /><br />[] 1 Never married<br />[] 2 Married<br />[] 3 Widowed<br />[] 4 Divorced/permanently separated</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never married
2	Currently married
3	Widowed
4	Divorced/permanently separated

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

This variable indicates the marital status of the person.

Universe

Malaysia 2000: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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