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II Housing Census and VII Population Census of 1964 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1964
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GTM_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Marital status (GT1964A_MARST)

Data file: GTM1964_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 177
End: 177
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">General characteristics</span>
<br />[For all persons]</p>

<p>5. Marital status</p>
<div class="i1">A single person is someone who has never been legally married and is not in a consensual union. A married person is a person who has been legally married. A person in a consensual union lives in a martial union without legal marriage. Widow is a person who has not been legally married after the death of a spouse and does not live in a consensual union. A person who is divorced has legally dissolved a legal marriage and is not in a consensual union.<br /><br />[] 1 Single<br />[] 2 Married<br />[] 3 Consensual union<br />[] 4 Widow<br />[] 5 Divorced<br />[] 6 Under 14 years old</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Single
2 Married
3 Consensual union
4 Widow or widower
5 Divorced
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
Guatemala 1964: Persons age 14+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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