Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998
NSS 54th Round

India, 1998

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998

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: 134229

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	67935	50.6%
2	Currently married	59888	44.6%
3	Widowed	6008	4.5%
4	Divorced/separated	398	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 - June 1998 NSS 54th Round