2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015

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Reference ID

USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

United States Census Bureau, IPUMS

Metadata

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Marital status (US2015A_MARST)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 303

End: 303

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[H] - Answer question 19 if this person is 15 years old or over. Otherwise, skip to the questions for Person 2 on page 12.</p>

<p>20. What is this person's marital status? </p>
<div class="i1">[] Now married<br />[] Widowed<br />[] Divorced<br />[] Separated<br />[] Never married [Skip to I]</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Married, spouse present
2	Married, spouse absent
3	Separated
4	Divorced
5	Widowed
6	Never married or single

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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

United States 2015: All persons

concept

Concept

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