Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1989 - June 1990
NSS 45th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-45Rnd-Sch1.0-1989

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: 138475

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 49

End: 49

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital Status of the member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	70747	51.1%
2	Currently married	60428	43.6%
3	Widowed	6837	4.9%
4	Divorced/separated	463	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, July 1989 - June 1990 NSS 45th Round