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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
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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: Jordan10-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2845
Valid (weighted): 1134177
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 116
End: 117
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2485

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 50 26755
2.4%
2 Married monogamous 2450 978250
86.3%
3 Married polygamous 12 3849
0.3%
4 Divorced/Separated 21 6819
0.6%
5 Widowed 312 118503
10.4%
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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