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Household Socio-Economic Survey, IHSES 2012

Iraq, 2012 - 2013
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Reference ID
IRQ_IHSES_2012_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Iraq12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 25145
Valid (weighted): 34204456.221
Invalid: 1
Invalid (weighted): 581.83
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 127
End: 128
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1264

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 368 330652
1%
2 Married monogamous 21945 29821862
87.2%
3 Married polygamous 503 917388
2.7%
4 Divorced/Separated 233 269367
0.8%
5 Widowed 2096 2865188
8.4%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 1 582
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
All heads 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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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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