Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005

Micronesia, Fed. Sts., 2005

Reference ID

FSM_2005_HIES_v01_M

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FSM Divison of Statistics

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Apr 25, 2019

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Marital status (kwn)

Data file: susenas11pool_ki

Overview

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status

Categories

Value	Category
1	Not married
2	Married
3	Divorce
4	Divorce due to death

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

Ask marital status of the respondent and enter the code into the box provided.

Description

Definition

1. Married means having a wife (for male) or husband (for female) durint the census, whether living together or separately. In this case the people included in this status are those who are married legally (by the law of the tradition, religion, state, etc), and also those who live together and have been considered husband and wive by the local society.
2. Divorcee is a person who has been separated from wife/husband and has not remarried.In this case including a person who claims to be divorced although it is not legally confirmed yet.