India - Survey of Disabled Persons, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 26, July 2002 - Dec 2002

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Aug 01, 2016

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Marital status (B4_q6)
File: Block 4_Demographic and other particulars of household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 396898
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the marital status of the member of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	200217	50.4%
2	Currently married	169672	42.7%
3	Widowed	24265	6.1%
4	Divorced/separated	2744	0.7%

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 marital status of each member will be recorded in terms of the specified code in this column. The codes are :
description code
never married ..................... 1
currently married ................. 2
widowed............................ 3
divorced/separated ................ 4