Labor Force Survey, LFS 2000

Palestine, 2000

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PAL_LFS_2000_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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Mar 27, 2016

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

Data file: Palestine00-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 27058

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 75

End: 77

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
100	Never married	493	1.8%
200	Married monogamous	23811	88%
210	Legally married	0	0%
220	Married	0	0%
300	Married polygamous	327	1.2%
400	Divorced/Separated	926	3.4%
410	Separated	0	0%
420	Divorced	0	0%
500	Widowed	1501	5.5%
999	Not stated	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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