Labor Force Survey, LFS 2011

Egypt, 2011

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EGY_LFS_2011_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Apr 24, 2017

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

Data file: Egypt 2011-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 88102

Invalid: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 64

End: 66

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
100	Never married	2007	2.3%
200	Married monogamous	0	0%
210	Legally married	31	0%
220	Married	72413	82.2%
300	Married polygamous	292	0.3%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0%
420	Divorced	984	1.1%
500	Widowed	12375	14%
999	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		6

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 15 +

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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The "married polygamous" category was generated for the head of the household only if the number of spouses exceeds "1". The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category were recoded missing.

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