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General Population Census VIII, Homes IV and Housing VI - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 2011
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URY_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Spouse or partner in the household (UY2011A_SPOUSEHH)

Data file: URY2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 213
End: 213
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Marital Status</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For people 12 years of age or older:</span>
<br />[Questions 8-11 are asked of people aged 12 or older.]</p>

<p><span class="em">8. Does [the respondent] have a spouse or partner in the household? (PerEC01)</span><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No (go to q. 11)</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes
2 No
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
<span class="h2">8.4 Marital Status</span></p>

<p>All of the questions of this module are directed towards people 12 years of age or older.</p>

<p>Does he/she have a spouse or partner in the household?</p>

<p>This question recognizes the partners in the interior of the household, in addition to those composed of the head of the household or reference person with his/her wife, if it corresponds.</p>

<p>The marital relation or partner is any type of union that implies cohabitation in the household interviewed, independently of the type of union (legal or de facto) and the sex of the people involved.</p>

<p>Select "yes" or "no" based on the informant's response.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person's spouse or partner resides in the household.
Universe
Uruguay 2011: Persons age 12+ [discrepancies:none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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