PAR2MARST
Current marital status of sample child's second resident parent
Codes and Frequencies
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
24
|
22
|
21
|
20
|
19
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | NIU | X | X | X | X | X |
| 10 | Married | · | · | · | · | · |
| 11 | Married, spouse is present | X | X | X | X | X |
| 12 | Married, spouse is not present | X | X | X | X | X |
| 13 | Married, spouse presence unknown | · | · | · | · | · |
| 20 | Widowed | X | X | X | X | X |
| 30 | Divorced | X | X | X | X | X |
| 40 | Separated | X | X | X | X | X |
| 50 | Never married | X | X | X | X | X |
| 60 | Living with a partner | X | X | X | X | X |
| 99 | Unknown marital status | X | X | X | X | X |
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Description
For sample children with two residential parents, PAR2MARST indicates the current marital status of the second parent. This variable classifies marital status into categories that are comparable to those in the 1997-2018 NHIS. Current marital status for the first residential parent is indicated by PAR1MARST.
This variable was deprecated in 2024. Users looking for a current measure of parental marital status should use PAR2MARCUR.
Universe
- 2019-2022; 2024: Sample children with two residential parents.
Availability
- 2019-2022, 2024
Weights
- 2019-2022, 2024 : SAMPWEIGHT
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