Labor Force Survey, LFS 2016

Palestine, 2016

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Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2016_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Jan 14, 2020

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

Data file: Palestine16-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 23884

Valid (weighted): 23884

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 74

End: 76

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V3923

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	517	517	2.2%
200	Married monogamous	20460	20501	85.8%
210	Legally married	0	0	0%
220	Married	0	0	0%
300	Married polygamous	86	78	0.3%
400	Divorced/Separated	972	974	4.1%
410	Separated	0	0	0%
420	Divorced	0	0	0%
500	Widowed	1849	1815	7.6%
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
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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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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.

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