Household Socio-Economic Survey, IHSES 2006/2007

Iraq, 2006 - 2007

Reference ID

IRQ_IHSES_2007_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Nov 30, 2016

Last modified

Nov 30, 2016

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Marital status [Standardized version] (PMART)

Data file: Iraq07-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 84806

Valid (weighted): 20266803.663

Invalid: 42383

Invalid (weighted): 9830196.329

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 35

End: 36

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2611

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	35952	8497981	41.9%
2	Married monogamous	43929	10580466	52.2%
3	Married polygamous	267	49681	0.2%
4	Divorced/Separated	591	144903	0.7%
5	Widowed	4067	993773	4.9%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		42383	9830196

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).

Universe

All individuals aged 12+ 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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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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The "married polygomous" category was only generated for the head of the household if the number of spouses exceed "1".

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