Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2010

Jordan, 2010 - 2011

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Reference ID

JOR_2010_HEIS_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Feb 19, 2014

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Marital status [Standardized version] (PMART)

Data file: Jordan10-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 10177

Valid (weighted): 3975330.347

Invalid: 5295

Invalid (weighted): 2124628.011

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 32

End: 33

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2418

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	4401	1690011	42.5%
2	Married monogamous	5209	2071402	52.1%
3	Married polygamous	12	3849	0.1%
4	Divorced/Separated	108	37830	1%
5	Widowed	447	172238	4.3%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		5295	2124628

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).

Universe

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

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