India - Employment and Unemployment : NSS 68th round, Schedule 10, July 2011- June 2012

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013

Year

2009 - 2010

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 of member (Marital_Status)
File: Block_4_Demographic particulars of household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 456939
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

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

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

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Never married	212393	46.5%
2	Currently married	221235	48.4%
3	Widowed	21783	4.8%
4	Divorced/separated	1528	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