India - Employment and Unemployment: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 10, July 2004 - June 2005

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Marital status (Marital_status)
File: Block_4_level_03

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 602805
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status (code )

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Never married	297377	49.3%
2	Currently married	274259	45.5%
3	Widowed	29072	4.8%
4	Divorced/separated	2097	0.3%

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

The marital status of each member will be recorded in this column in codes. The codes for different marital statuses are as follows:
.

never married .................... 1
currently married ............... 2
widowed ............................ 3
divorced/ separated .....….... 4