Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12461

Invalid: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 788

End: 789

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	202	1.6%
2	Married monogamous	9946	79.8%
3	Married polygamous	36	0.3%
4	Divorced/Separated	417	3.3%
5	Widowed	1860	14.9%
99	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		2

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage of the head

Universe

All heads aged 18+ years

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable 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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The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category was recoded missing.

The "married polygamous" category was only generated for the head of the household if the number of spouses exceeds "1".

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