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Commonwealth Caribbean Population Census - St. Lucia, 1991 - IPUMS Subset

St. Lucia, 1991
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LCA_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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The Central Statistical Office of Saint Lucia, IPUMS
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Marital status (LC1991A_MARST)

Data file: LCA1991_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 186
End: 186
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="LC91A405 LC91A408 LC91A409 LC91A410 LC91A411 LC91A412 LC91A413 LC91A458 LC91A459 LC91A460 LC91A461 LC91A462 LC91A463 LC91A464"><span class="h2">Section 6. Marital status, union status and fertility</span><br /><span class="h3">For persons 15 years and over</span><br />[Questions 6.1 through 6.14 were asked of persons 15 and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="LC91A405">6.1 What is ____'s legal marital status- that is, are you/is he/she married, divorced, legally separated, widowed or never married?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Married<br />[] 2 Widowed -- Skip to 6.3<br />[] 3 Divorced -- Skip to 6.3<br />[] 4 Legally separated -- Skip to 6.3<br />[] 5 Never married -- Skip to 6.3<br />[] 6 Not stated -- Skip to 6.3</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Married
2 Widowed
3 Divorced
4 Separated legal
5 Never married
8 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the marital status of the person.
Universe
Saint Lucia 1991: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: typeI trace; type II none]

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