Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997
NSS 53rd Round

India, 1997

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997

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: 249712

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 59

End: 59

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	125936	50.4%
2	Currently married	111152	44.5%
3	Widowed	11799	4.7%
4	Divorced/separated	825	0.3%

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, Jan - Dec 1997 NSS 53rd Round