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Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2008

Jordan, 2008 - 2009
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Reference ID
JOR_2008_HEIS_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Feb 19, 2014
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Jordan08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2746
Valid (weighted): 1038493.592
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 106
End: 107
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2472

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 40 14411
1.4%
2 Married monogamous 2405 916933
88.3%
3 Married polygamous 19 6983
0.7%
4 Divorced/Separated 13 4469
0.4%
5 Widowed 269 95697
9.2%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
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 15+ 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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