National Population and Housing Census 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Argentina, 1991

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Reference ID

ARG_1991_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Minnesota Population Center

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Marital status (AR1991A_0427)

Data file: ARG1991-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 162

End: 162

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For all women and men fourteen years of age or older.
[Questions 17-25 were asked of persons age 14 years +.]

[Questions 21-24 were asked of persons age 14+ who had a job last week (did formal or informal work or did not work due to sickness, vacation, etc.), per questions 17-19.]

25. [Marital status]

Currently, you are:

[] In a consensual union
[] Married in a legal union
[] Separated from a union or marriage
[] Divorced from a marriage
[] Widowed from a consensual union or marriage
[] Single, never formed a union or married
[] Unanswered

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	United
2	Married
3	Separated
4	Divorced
5	Widowed
6	Single
9	Unknown

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 next questions (from 17 to 25) are asked to all women and men 14 years old or older

25. Currently, you are?

Here we mark the de facto conjugal situations at the moment of the Census, not the civil state.
If an enumerated person is male, with this question we end the interview.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Persons age 14+

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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