Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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EGY_HIECS_2008_HD_V2.0

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Partnership and parenthood status of the head (PARTHD)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23428

Valid (weighted): 23430.118

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 96

End: 96

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Head with partner, with no children	1700	1700	7.3%
2	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child<18	14794	14793	63.1%
3	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child 18+	3028	3040	13%
4	Single Head, with no children	1412	1412	6%
5	Single Head, with children, Youngest child<18	843	838	3.6%
6	Single Head, with children, Youngest child 18+	1651	1647	7%

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

ERF recode that allows users to identify heads as having a partner (either married or unmarried) versus not having a partner, as well as parents as opposed to non-parents, using a single variable

Universe

All heads

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Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

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Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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Partnership status for head may be restricted to civic status, parenthood status assumes that the children of the head are also children of the spouse.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by ERF.
Single head is defined as never married, divorced, separated or widowed.
Head with partner is defined as married head.

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