Marital status code N
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 270666 |
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| Definition: | A code set representing the marital status of a person. |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Refers to the current marital status of a person. CODE 2 Widowed This code usually refers to registered marriages but when self-reported may also refer to de facto marriages. CODE 4 Separated This code refers to registered marriages but when self-reported may also refer to de facto marriages. CODE 5 Married (registered and de facto) Includes people who have been divorced or widowed but have since re-married, and should be generally accepted as applicable to all de facto couples, including of the same sex. CODE 6 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected. |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Social marital status code NN
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| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Birth mother—marital status, code N
Person—adoptive parent marital status, code N
Person—marital status, code N
Person—marital status, code N
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