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

Egypt, 2008 - 2009
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Reference ID
EGY_HIECS_2008_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23425
Valid (weighted): 23427.087
Invalid: 3
Invalid (weighted): 3.032
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 91
End: 92
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2691

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 350 352
1.5%
2 Married monogamous 19414 19425
82.9%
3 Married polygamous 117 117
0.5%
4 Divorced/Separated 272 266
1.1%
5 Widowed 3272 3268
14%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 3 3
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
Male Heads aged 18+ years

Female Heads aged 16 + 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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