India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 57th Round, Schedule 1, July 2001 - June 2002

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-57Rnd-Sch1.0-2001

Year

2001 - 2002

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 29, 2016

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

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 420573
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of the member of the household

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	209283	49.8%
2	Currently married	189449	45.0%
3	Widowed	20172	4.8%
4	Divorced/separated	1669	0.4%

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