American Community Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2005

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Reference ID

USA_2005_CS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Rule for linking spouse (US2005A_0408)

Data file: USA2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 228

End: 228

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Rule for linking spouse

Categories

Value	Category
0	No spouse link
1	Wife follows husband
2	Wife precedes husband
3	Non-adjacent links -- consistent relationship to head/age di
4	Adjacent links (wife follows husband -- no age, other relati
5	Adjacent links (wife precedes husband -- no age, other relat

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 reports the number of the rule for the link of a person to a probable spouse. If a link could be made according to more than one rule, the lowest-numbered rule was applied.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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