India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 53th Round, Schedule 1, January - December 1997

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997

Year

1997

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Jul 28, 2016

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Marital Status Code (B4_q6)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 249712
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of the member of the household

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	125936	50.4%
2	Currently married	111152	44.5%
3	Widowed	11799	4.7%
4	Divorced/separated	825	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 terms of the specified code in this column. The codes are :
description code
never married ..................... 1
currently married ................. 2
widowed............................ 3
divorced/separated ................ 4