Home / Central Data Catalog / GHA_2010_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

2010 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2010
Get Microdata
Reference ID
GHA_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Dec 22, 2014
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
19368
Downloads
540

Marital status (GH2010A_MARST)

Data file: GHA2010_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 178
End: 178
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions P00-P20 were asked for persons in both the household and non-household populations.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Marital status: Answer for persons 12 years and older.</span>
<br />P10. What is [the respondent's] current marital status?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Never married<br />[] 2 Informal/consensual union/living together<br />[] 3 Married<br />[] 4 Separated<br />[] 5 Divorced <br />[] 6 Widowed</div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Never married
2 Informal, consensual union, living together
3 Married
4 Separated
5 Divorced
6 Widowed
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 marital status of the person.
Universe
Ghana 2010: Persons age 12+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 28.8%]

concept

Concept
Back to Catalog