Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2002 - Dec 2002
NSS 58th Round

India, 2002

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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Marital Status Code (B4_q6)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 154151

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 82

End: 82

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	76387	49.6%
2	Currently married	69672	45.2%
3	Widowed	7405	4.8%
4	Divorced/separated	687	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 2002 - Dec 2002 NSS 58th Round