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Mongolia - LFS 2002/2003

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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Created on	Jul 30, 2013
Last modified	Jan 21, 2016
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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

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
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)