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WIFENO
Wife number, alternate 1910 linking variable
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Description

WIFENO reports the person-record number (see PERNUM) within the household of the man's apparent wife, as determined by the creators of the 1910 samples that were developed prior to the existence of the IPUMS (these include the national 0.4% 1910 sample and the 1910 Black oversample). These samples have since been integrated into the IPUMS as part of the "1910 1.4% sample with oversamples." The cases containing WIFENO are identified in the SAMP1910 variable, where they have values of 5 or 6.

If the man has no apparent wife in the household, he is coded "0." (All women are coded "0").

The 1910 sample linked men to wives if the census form indicated that all of the following conditions were met within the household:

  • the man was the household head and the woman was the wife of the head,
  • there were no persons in the household who were unrelated to the head except unmarried boarders,
  • no more than one person in the household was coded as wife,
  • no more than two people in the household were married (person age 13+ with "blank" marital status were treated as married for this purpose),
  • the man and woman had the same surname,
  • they both reported that they were married,
  • they both reported that they had been married the same number of years, and
  • they both were age 15+.

Other husband-wife links ("probability" and "hand" links) were made in other cases based on the above and other factors listed in WIFLNKWT. For further information see WIFLNKWT and WIFLKREA.