India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 46th Round, Schedule 1, July 1990 - Jun1991

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-46Rnd-Sch1.0-1990

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Mar 10, 2016

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

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 135378
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of the member of the household

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	68943	50.9%
2	Currently married	59204	43.7%
3	Widowed	6724	5.0%
4	Divorced/separated	507	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