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X Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Vivienda 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2011
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CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Minnesota Population Center
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Marital status (CR2011A_0434)

Data file: CRI2011-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 207
End: 207
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 6
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Only for people 12 years or older
[Questions 20 through 23 are asked only of persons aged 20 and older]


20. [The respondent] is currently...?

[] 1 In a consensual union or partnership
[] 2 Married
[] 3 Separated
[] 4 Divorced
[] 5 Widowed
[] 6 Single
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Consenual union or partnership
2 Married
3 Separated
4 Divorced
5 Widowed
6 Single
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
Questions 20 to 31 are asked only of people 12 years of age or older.


Question 20: Marital status

Only for people 12 years or older

20. [Name] is currently ...?

[] 1 in a consensual union or partnership
[] 2 married
[] 3 separated
[] 4 divorced
[] 5 widowed
[] 6 single


This question refers to the marital status and not the civil or legal status of the population.

Consensual union or partnership: people that live in a consensual union without having contracted legal or civil matrimony with the person with which they cohabitate. This category includes those people of the same sex that declare to be cohabitating as a couple.

Married: person that has contracted legal matrimony and lives with his/her spouse or partner, even if they do not live in the same dwelling for circumstantial reasons such as work, sickness, imprisonment, hospitalization, or other reason that does not allow them to live under the same roof; whenever the union has not been dissolved.

Separated: person that contracted legal matrimony or was in a consensual union and currently does not live with his/her spouse or partner because they dissolved the union without recurring to legal mechanisms, or solicited legal separation without having consolidated the divorce.

Divorced: person that having dissolved his/her matrimony in a legal way has not married again nor lives in consensual union.

Widowed: person that after the death of his/her spouse has not contracted matrimony again nor lives in a consensual union.

Single: person that has never married nor lived in a consensual union.

Remember that this deals with the marital status and not the civil status. Because of this you may find the case of a couple where one of the partners is legally married and the other single; in this situation, the marital status of both is "consensual union."

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's marital status.
Universe
Persons age 12+

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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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