India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 62nd Round, Schedule 1, July 2005 - June 2006

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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 02, 2016

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

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 189998
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of the member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	91747	48.3%
2	Currently married	88764	46.7%
3	Widowed	8852	4.7%
4	Divorced/separated	635	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. The codes are:
never married - 1, currently married - 2, widowed - 3, divorced/separated - 4.