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Octavo Censo Nacional de Población y Cuarto de Vivienda de Panamá 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Panama, 1980
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PAN_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Contraloria General de la Republica, Direccion de Estadistica y Censo, IPUMS
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Marital status (PA1980A_MARST)

Data file: PAN1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 202
End: 202
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PA80A405">5. What is your current marital status?<br /><div class="i1">Mark the appropriate box. For those under 15 years of age, mark box 8.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Consensual union</span>: One who lives in a consensual union without being legally married. <span class="ital">Single</span>: One who has never married nor lived in a consensual union. <span class="ital">Married</span>: One who has contracted legal matrimony and lives in that state. <span class="ital">Divorced</span>: a person who is legally separated and who has neither remarried nor lives in a consensual union. <span class="ital">Widow(er)</span>: a person whose spouse or partner has died and who has neither remarried nor lives in a consensual union. <span class="ital">Separated</span>: One who lives separately from a spouse or partner.<br /><br />[] 1 Consensual union<br />[] 2 Single<br />[] 3 Married<br />[] 4 Divorced<br />[] 5 Widowed<br />Separated:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 6 From a marriage<br />[] 7 From a consensual union</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Consensual union
2 Single
3 Married
4 Divorced
5 Widowed
6 Separated: married
7 Separated: consensual union
8 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's marital status.
Universe
Panama 1980: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: none]

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