Labor Force Survey, LFS 2012

Palestine, 2012

Get Microdata

Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2012_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jan 23, 2017

Last modified

Jan 23, 2017

Page views

182408

Downloads

6300

Marital status of the head [Detailed version] (MARTHD_D)

Data file: Palestine12-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 26898

Valid (weighted): 735932.445

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 78

End: 80

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2734

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	512	14124	1.9%
200	Married monogamous	23539	645384	87.7%
210	Legally married	0	0	0%
220	Married	0	0	0%
300	Married polygamous	167	4216	0.6%
400	Divorced/Separated	1017	26273	3.6%
410	Separated	0	0	0%
420	Divorced	0	0	0%
500	Widowed	1663	45935	6.2%
999	Not stated	0	0	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage of the head (detailed version of coding).

Universe

Heads aged 12+

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
----------------------

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
----------------------------------
In the raw data, an aggregated "other" category is provided to indicate the divorced, separated or widowed. To split the original category, those younger than 60 years of age were assumed to be divorced/separated, while those aged 60 years or older were assumed to be widowed.

Back to Catalog