c' G - Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)

p. 1 Date of birth
Applies to a21 ~n aged 16-49 excapt tingle girls ●ged 16 ●nd 17.
Chack that ●ll woman aged 50 or over, and single wamen ●ga4 16 or 17 ●re coded DNA x
end that tb~est of the Family Info~tion section is b2ank.
Ring the -nth (2 digits) and ring the year (2 digits). If the month is blank ●nter
●nd ring code 06. If the year is blank calculate and ring from the age given at th
household box bearing in mind the birthday month.
Refer to s/v if the age has been refused at the household box, or omitted, and ther
is no birth date ●ither.
Check A Household hx marital e.tatus.
Applies as date of birth.
Check that one only of precedes 1-4 ia ringed and that it agreea with the household
box.
Women aged 16-49 Check A.
Marital status code 1,
husband not in household .............................. I
husband in the household .............................. 2
Women aged 16-49
Marital status code 3-5 ............................... 3
Single women, aged 18-49
Marital statua code 2 ................................. 4
liaf er to s/v any cases where there is a query over marital ●tatus in the Houaehold
Box, or if marital status has baen refused or omitted in the Household Box. (See al
instructions for coding marital status in the Household BCIX).
Note
1. No answers are not allowed at Check A.
2. ~ particularly careful in ensuring that those married xomen with h“abands in
the household are coded 2 not 1.
QII.2 Is your husband abaent beta.ae he usually wnrks away from hcm.e,or for some
other rea.son7
Applies to those coded 1 at check A.
Check that either precede 1 or 2 is ringed. Recode aa necessary
follows:
Sc
Uarriaga has broken down ................................ T
Include in code 1 - husband In primon; humband
frcm hm.
wfer to s/v all emexare remeining in oode 2.
into coda 3 as
is a full time ●tudent living away