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National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q3, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2009
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MEX_2009_LFS-Q3_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Marital status [general version] (MARST)

Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q3-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 87
End: 87
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Single/never married
2 Married/in union
3 Separated/divorced/spouse absent
4 Widowed
9 Unknown/missing
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
MARST describes the person's current marital status according to law or custom. Individuals who remarried should report the status relevant to their most recent marriage. Census instructions rarely explicitly limit marital status to strictly legal unions.

Note regarding universe: The lowest age at which a person can be anything but "never married" varies among samples.

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Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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