Marital Status (b6)
File: Individual data - CWIQ 2003
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-7
Valid cases: 210129 (16738720.5)
Invalid: 41 (2806.4)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 7
Questions and instructions
Universe
All household members
Literal question
What is [NAME]'s marital status?
Categories
ValueCategoryCasesWeighted
1 Never married 125674 10006385 59.8%
2 Loose/informal union 9155 789921 4.7%
3 Married (monogamous) 49175 4027148 24.1%
4 Married (polygamous) 11501 721928 4.3%
5 Divorced 4786 403775 2.4%
6 Separated 2445 205229 1.2%
7 Widowed 7393 584334 3.5%
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.