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... than divorce (code 5) means nothing. A bar chart of marital status makes it visibly obvious that married is the most frequent response. The frequency table shows that 2826 are married 51.4 percent and 51.4 valid percent with no missing cases. The cum percent means nothing with this variable. But what does this tell us about the rest? Living as a couple (co-habitating) widowed, divorced, separated - some have been married. A better interpretation may be to say that 51.4 percent (just over half) are currently married and 48.5 percent are currently not married. there are 4 (.1 percent) missing cases giving the code value 0. Highest educational qualifications (AQFEDHI) Sometimes the order of numbers attached to a variable is significant. If the possible responses can be arranged in order as with highest educational qualifications, the variable is called ordinal, its codes have an order. The codes assigned to (AQFEDHI) have an order from high to ...
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