General Population Census VI and Housing IV - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1985

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Reference ID

URY_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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General Office of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS

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Marital status (UY1985A_MARST)

Data file: URY1985_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 174

End: 174

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="UY85A404">5. What is your current de facto marital state? <div class="i1">Ask in the indicated order and when you receive an affirmative response, mark the corresponding box and go to the next question. [] 3 Married [] 4 Free union [] 5 Widowed [] 6 Divorced [] 7 Separated [] 8 Single</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Single
2	Married
3	Free union
4	Widowed
5	Divorced
6	Separated

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

<svar v="UY85A400 UY85A401 UY85A402 UY85A403 UY85A404 UY85A405 UY85A406 UY85A407 UY85A408 UY85A409 UY85A410 UY85A411 UY85A412 UY85A413">I -- General characteristics -- all persons </svar>

<svar a="all" v="UY85A404">For question No. 5 "What is your de facto civil or marital state?" you should read the list of possible responses, one by one, and in the order in which they are presented in the Census document, waiting for an affirmative response. When you get it, mark the corresponding box with an "X" and do not read the rest of the alternatives. </svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Uruguay 1985: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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