Variables for theme Personal characteristics

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Variable descriptions

durilm4 - Duration of de facto marital state, num. of completed months

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• Type and length: Numeric(4.0) Format: 9999 (expressed in months)
• Description: Duration of de facto marital state ignoring legal changes (number of complete months).
  If STATE4 = divorced, this duration will be the time since separation.
  If STATE4= married, this duration will be the time since a common-law union started, if there was one prior to the marriage.
  For all other values of STATE4, this variable will be set to "Not applicable".
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 0001:9995
  • 9996 Interim Processing Code
  • 9997 Don't Know
  • 9998 Refusal
  • 9999 Not Applicable

durily4 - Duration of de facto marital state,num. of completed years

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• Type and length: Numeric(2.0) Format: 99 (expressed in years)
• Description: Duration of de facto marital state ignoring legal changes (number of complete years). If STATE4 = divorced, this duration will be the time since separation. If STATE4 = married, this duration will be the time since a common-law union started, if there was one prior to the marriage. For all other values of STATE4, this variable will be set to "Not applicable".
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 00:95
  • 96 Interim Processing Code
  • 97 Don't Know
  • 98 Refusal
  • 99 Not Applicable

durm4 - Duration of marital state, number of completed months

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• Type and length: Numeric(4.0) Format: 9999 (expressed in months)
• Description: Duration of marital state (number of complete months).
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 0001:9995
  • 9996 Interim Processing Code
  • 9997 Don't Know
  • 9998 Refusal
  • 9999 Not Applicable

dury4 - Duration of marital state,number of completed years

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• Type and length: Numeric(2.0) Format: 99 (expressed in years)
• Description: Duration of marital state (number of complete years).
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 00:95
  • 96 Interim Processing Code
  • 97 Don't Know
  • 98 Refusal
  • 99 Not Applicable

enddat4 - Date on which the marital state ended

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• Type and length: Date(8.0) Format: YYYYMMDD
• Description: Date on which the marital state ended. For unended marital states, a date in the following reference year will be used. All SLID "date" type variables can be viewed as a concatenation of the three sub-component fields year, month and day. The standard SLID reserved values are assigned, when necessary, to the component fields, and not to the complete date variable. So it is possible to have a mixture of valid values and reserved codes in a "date" type variable. This variable is not collected but will be derived through processing.
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 18000101:99951231
  • 99969696 Interim Processing Code
  • 99979797 Don't know
  • 99989898 Refusal
  • 99999999 Not applicable

ended4 - Flag - Marital state is ended

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• Type and length: Character(1.0)
• Description: Flag to indicate if the marital state is ended.
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 1 Yes
  • 2 No
  • 6 Interim Processing Code
  • 7 Don't Know
  • 8 Refusal
  • 9 Not Applicable

statd4 - Detailed marital status of respondent

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• Type and length: Character(2.0)
• Description: Detailed marital status of respondent.
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 01 Married
  • 02 Common-law
  • 03 Separated
  • 04 Divorced
  • 05 Widowed
  • 06 Single (never married)
  • 07 Separated common-law
  • 96 Interim Processing Code
  • 97 Don't Know
  • 98 Refusal
  • 99 Not Applicable

state4 - Marital status of respondent

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• Type and length: Character(2.0)
• Description: Marital status of respondent. The first state for all persons, (i.e. STATEID = 01) is always 06 = "Single (never married)". Persons separated from a common-law relationship are included in 03 = "Separated".
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 01 Married
  • 02 Common-law
  • 03 Separated
  • 04 Divorced
  • 05 Widowed
  • 06 Single (never married)
  • 96 Interim Processing Code
  • 97 Don't Know
  • 98 Refusal
  • 99 Not Applicable

strdat4 - Date on which the marital state began

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• Type and length: Date(8.0) Format: YYYYMMDD
• Description: Date on which the marital state began. All SLID "date" type variables can be viewed as a concatenation of the three sub-component fields year, month and day. The standard SLID reserved values are assigned, when necessary, to the component fields, and not to the complete date variable. So it is possible to have a mixture of valid values and reserved codes in a "date" type variable.
• Population: Persons aged 16 or older
• Range and codes:
  • 18000101:99951231
  • 99969696 Interim Processing Code
  • 99979797 Don't know
  • 99989898 Refusal
  • 99999999 Not applicable