Population Census 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Hungary, 1990

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HUN_1990_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

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Marital status (HU1990A_0407)

Data file: HUN1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 145

End: 145

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

6. Marital status:

[] 1 Single
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced

Question 6.

The so-called separated person whose marriage has not been dissolved by a final judgment is to be counted as married. A person whose former spouse died after the dissolution of the marriage is not to be counted as widowed but as being divorced.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never married
2	Married
3	Widowed
4	Divorced

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

6. Marital status

The legal marital status will be taken into account. The legally married person is regarded as such even though his/her spouse is not living with nevertheless the marriage had not been terminated by court. The marital status of the persons cohabiting without legal marriage should be registered according to the legal status, e.g. in case a never married female is living with a married male, their marital status will be marked as "never married" and "married" respectively.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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