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Population and Housing Census 1989 - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1989
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VNM_1989_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1989 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., Minnesota Population Center
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Marital status (VN1989A_0414)

Data file: VNM1989-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 155
End: 155
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For persons born on or before 1-4-1984 [it should say 1976] (aged 13 and over) answer following questions [applies to questions 9 to 13]



10. Marital status

[] 1 Single
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced
[] 5 Separated
Categories
Value Category
1 Single
2 Married
3 Widowed
4 Divorced
5 Separated
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.
Interviewer instructions
Persons born before April 1st, 1976 (aged 13 and older) answer this question.



10. Marital status
Persons borne before April 1st, 1976 answer this question.

Single: single persons are never married, including those who are single mothers/fathers.
Married: married persons are those who currently have a wife or a husband. They are in any of the following situations:

Having a marriage certificate
Having a wedding ceremony
Do not have a marriage certificate or had an organized wedding ceremony, but they publicly live together in the same house.

Widowed: persons who their husband/wife already passed away and they have not married another person.
Divorced: persons who were previously married, but already separated and finalized their marriage by a court order, and are currently not marry to anyone.

Note: persons who were widowed or divorced and are currently married are defined as "married".

Separated: persons who are currently married and live separately due to some reasons (e.g. waiting for divorced paperwork, the wife/husband is living abroad as a refugee, etc.).

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the marital status.
Universe
Persons age 13+

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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