Household Socio-Economic Survey, IHSES 2012

Iraq, 2012 - 2013

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Reference ID

IRQ_IHSES_2012_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Nov 30, 2016

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Marital status [Standardized version] (PMART)

Data file: Iraq12-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 114335

Valid (weighted): 186408392.863

Invalid: 61707

Invalid (weighted): 101334611.934

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 42

End: 43

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1539

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	47443	77618617	41.6%
2	Married monogamous	60330	98284520	52.7%
3	Married polygamous	503	917388	0.5%
4	Divorced/Separated	1049	1884903	1%
5	Widowed	5010	7702964	4.1%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		61707	101334612

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).

Universe

All individuals aged 12+ years

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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There is no Polygamous status for females. Generally the information about polygamous status is available only for the head (male). For the other individuals we consider those having the status married as monogamous.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The "married polygomous" category was only generated for the head of the household if the number of spouses exceed "1".

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