Marriage microdata includes variables such as date of marriage, state residency, education, previous marital status, number of marriages, and ages of bride and groom. Divorce microdata include variables such as number or children under 18, custody, month and year of marriage, marriage duration, number of marriages, age, race, and state residency of husband and wife. By using this data you signify your agreement with NCHS's data use rules . And both can be read by SAS without decompression as shown in the sample sas file. The UNIX command pkunzip and uncompress will also uncompress these files.
Documentation is available below.
Marriage Divorce . Data Codebook SAS code Data Codebook SAS code .