1974 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 1974

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Reference ID

LBR_1974_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, IPUMS

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Marital status (LR1974A_MARST)

Data file: LBR1974_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 110

End: 110

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="em">5. Marital status</span>
<br />Ask all persons over ten years</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Never married<br />[] 2 Married<br />[] 3 Widowed<br />[] 4 Divorced/ Separated</div>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	Never married
2	Married
3	Widowed
4	Divorced/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 person's marital status.

Universe

Liberia 1974: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies type I: none; type II: 26.7%]

concept

Concept

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