Description
The file 'marital_status_replacement' contains a derived variable for all respondents to the 2022 cycle of CCHS (including the Territories). The derived variable DHHDVMS indicates whether the selected respondent was indicated to be married or in a common-law relationship with another person in the household. The source for the derivation is the collected information on the relationship of each person in the household roster to the selected respondent.
When a selected respondent is indicated to have both a spouse and common-law partner in the household (which would be different household members), precedence is given to married (n=3, master file). When a respondent indicates being married to more than one person (n=21, master file) or have more than one common-law partner (n=3, master file), the erroneous extra relationship is ignored.
- The values for DHHDVHSZ are:
- 1-Married to another person in respondent's household
- 2-Common-law relationship with another person in respondent's household
- 3-Respondent lives alone
- 4-Respondent not married or in common-law relationship within household
- 9-Not stated (partially or fully missing relationship data)
- Notes: If respondent relationship information is incomplete, but there is a spouse/common-law partner, the variable is coded as 1-married or 2-common-law, respectively. If the respondent relationship information is partially or fully incomplete (missing), then the derived variable is coded to the 9-Not Stated category. Respondents with no spouse or common-law partner and full relationship data are coded to the category 3-Respondent is not married or in common-law relationship within household. Since respondents who live alone are not asked about relationships, these cases are coded to the value 4-Respondent lives alone.
