Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1987 - June 1988
NSS 43rd Round

India, 1987 - 1988

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Marital Status Code (B4_q6)

Data file: Block 4 - Person records

Overview

Valid: 659466

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 65

End: 65

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital Status

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	337122	51.1%
2	Currently married	285289	43.3%
3	Widowed	34059	5.2%
4	Divorced/separated	2195	0.3%
8	Invalid	801	0.1%

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

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1987 - June 1988 NSS 43rd Round