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 [Detailed version] (MARTHD_D)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12461

Invalid: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 790

End: 792

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
100	Never married	202	1.6%
200	Married monogamous	0	0%
210	Legally married	2	0%
220	Married	9944	79.8%
300	Married polygamous	36	0.3%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0%
410	Separated	82	0.7%
420	Divorced	335	2.7%
500	Widowed	1860	14.9%
999	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		2

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

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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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 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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