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QUESTION:
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1952: Are you married?
1956 AND LATER: Are you married now and living with your husband/
wife (2002: spouse)-- or are you widowed, divorced, separated, or
have you never married?
VALID_CODES:
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1. Married and living with spouse (or spouse in service)
2. Never married
3. Divorced
4. Separated
5. Widowed
7. Partners; not married (VOLUNTEERED [exc.1986])
MISSING_CODES:
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8. R not married/partnered, refused to say whether never
married, divorced, separated or widowed (1992
only); DK
9. NA; no Pre IW; unmarried at time of IW (1952 only);
short-form 'new' Cross-Section (1992)
Inap. question not used
NOTES:
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GENERAL NOTE:
Common law partners first appeared as a volunteered code in 1964.
Interviewer instruction 1990 and later: 'If spouse is in a nursing
home or works in another city, or the family is in the process of
moving and is temporarily holding 2 residences, code 1 is used.'
1952 NOTE:
Rs who were not married have been recoded to NA because their specific
status as divorced, widowed, never married etc. was not determined. Rs
married at the time of the 1952 interview have all been coded 1 in
VCF0147, with no 1952 cases appearing in codes 2-7.
1960 NOTE:
1960 pre variable was used except for 22 no-pre cases, for which post
marital status was used.
1986 NOTE:
Unmarried Rs were directly asked if they were living with a partner.
1992 NOTE:
This question was not part of the 'short-form' questionnaire; for short-
form panel cases, however, 1990 study data were incorporated, except in
cases where additional information current to 1992 [as determined by the
interviewer] contradicted the marital status of 1990. In the latter
instances, the 1992 marital status variable was coded to reflect the
most complete and up-to-date information known by the interviewer.
2002 NOTE:
For panel cases, 2000 data were included.
WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a
TYPE:
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Numeric Dec 0
SOURCE_VARS:
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1952: 520114
1956: 560177
1958: 580176
1960: 600124
1962: 620791
1964: 640188
1966: 660193
1968: 680146
1970: 700263(type 0)
1972: 720295
1974: 742407
1976: 763370
1978: 780505
1980: 800409
1982: 820536
1984: 840430
1986: 860598
1988: 880418
1990: 900553
1992: 923904
1994: 941204
1996: 960606
1998: 980573
2000: 000909
2002: 023127,023127a
2004: 043251
Walter Mebane
2005-11-03