STATISTICAL MICRODATA
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Mongolia - LFS 2002/2003

LFS
Reference ID MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2002-v2.0
Year 2002
Country Mongolia
Producer(s) National Statistical Office of Mongolia
Sponsor(s) Government of Mongolia - GOF -
Asian Development Bank - ADB -
International Labour Organization - ILO -
Collection(s)
Labour Force Survey
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Marital status (V9)
File: LFS 2002-2003
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-6
Valid cases: 34443 (1539185.9)
Invalid: 15505 (689642.8)
Definition
The marital status of a person refers to the current defacto conjugal status of the person. A person claiming to be married according to custom or repute should also be treated as married, although the marriage has not been registered according to law.
Categories
ValueCategoryCasesWeighted
1 Never married 11334 512562 33.3%
2 Married 19632 865630 56.2%
3 Living together 224 10858 0.7%
4 Separated 292 14339 0.9%
5 Divorced 700 33119 2.2%
6 Widowed 2261 102678 6.7%
Sysmiss 15505 689643
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.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What is______'s marital status?
Interviewer instructions
(For Household members who are aged 15 or more years )
(Use marital status codes below)

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