India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 43rd Round, Schedule 1, July 1987 - June 1988

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

Year

1987 - 1988

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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Aug 22, 2015

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Marital Status Code (B4_q6)
File: Block 4 - Person records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 659466
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital Status

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	337122	51.1%
2	Currently married	285289	43.3%
3	Widowed	34059	5.2%
4	Divorced/separated	2195	0.3%
8	Invalid	801	0.1%

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