Population Census Jamaica 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Jamaica, 1991

Get Microdata

Reference ID

JAM_1991_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Division of Censuses and Related Studies, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Dec 20, 2012

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

Page views

14164

Downloads

667

Marital status [general version] (MARST)

Data file: JAM1991-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 78

End: 78

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Single/never married
2	Married/in union
3	Separated/divorced/spouse absent
4	Widowed
9	Unknown/missing

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

[program universe for et,mz samples.

MARST describes the person's current marital status according to law or custom. Individuals who remarried should report the status relevant to their most recent marriage. Census instructions rarely explicitly limit marital status to strictly legal unions.

Note regarding universe: The lowest age at which a person can be anything but "never married" varies among samples.

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog