National Survey on Household Budget, Consumption and Standard of Living, EBCNV 2005

Tunisia, 2005 - 2006

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TUN_EBCNV_2005_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, National Institute of Statistics - Tunisia

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Feb 19, 2014

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

Data file: Tunisia05-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 12317

Valid (weighted): 2223917

Invalid: 1

Invalid (weighted): 232

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 81

End: 83

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V3441

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	286	53398	2.4%
200	Married monogamous	10214	1840652	82.8%
210	Legally married	0	0	0%
220	Married	0	0	0%
300	Married polygamous	0	0	0%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0	0%
420	Divorced	215	38834	1.7%
500	Widowed	1602	291033	13.1%
999	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		1	232

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

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)

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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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Multiple spouse is forbidden in Tunisia by law as a result the category "Married polygamous" is never identified

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