Household Consumer Expenditure, July - Dec 1991
NSS 47th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch1.0-1991

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 16, 2018

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Marital Status Code (B4_q6)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 67689

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 61

End: 61

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of the member of the household

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	34420	50.9%
2	Currently married	29553	43.7%
3	Widowed	3427	5.1%
4	Divorced/separated	289	0.4%

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 - Dec 1991 NSS 47th Round