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

Reference ID

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

Year

1997

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

Page views

170402

Marital Status Code (B4_q6)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 249712
Invalid: 0

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