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High Frequency Survey, HFS 2016

Somalia, 2016
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Reference ID
SOM_HFS_2016_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Utz J. Pape - World Bank, Directorate of National Statistics- Federal Government of Somalia
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Nov 19, 2017
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Somalia16-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 4115
Valid (weighted): 897554.699
Invalid: 2
Invalid (weighted): 337.526
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 124
End: 125
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1126

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 89 21392
2.4%
2 Married monogamous 3376 730748
81.4%
3 Married polygamous 127 33190
3.7%
4 Divorced/Separated 325 70615
7.9%
5 Widowed 198 41609
4.6%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 2 338
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
Universe
All heads aged 18+ 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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Should not be imputed, it can be generated only for those to whom the question was asked (in other words, the youngest age at which information is collected may differ depending on the survey).
Married refers to only formal marriages (including legally married). Polygamous unions includes males with multiple spouses.
Number of spouses in household can be applied to compute polygamy.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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