5th Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008 - IPUMS Subset

South Sudan, 2008

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SSD_2008_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Evaluation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Marital status (SS2008A_0439)

Data file: SSD2008-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 218

End: 218

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status
[Questions 24 - 25: Persons age 12 or older]

24. What is [the respondent's] marital status?

[] 1 Never married
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never married
2	Married
3	Widowed
4	Divorced
9	NIU (not in universe)

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

7.6. LFQ marital status questions 24-25

The remaining questions are only asked of persons aged 12 years old and above. If you are asking questions for a person 11 years old or less, stop and go to the next person listed on the questionnaire.

Q24 "What is [the respondent's] marital status?" Continuing with the first person listed "Person 01" 12 years old or over, ask question 24.

Never assume a person's marital status.
Be sure to differentiate between never married, divorced and widowed.
Shade the number corresponding to the respondents answer.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Persons age 12+

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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