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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2005

Palestine, 2005 - 2006
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2005_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of 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: Palestine05-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2152
Valid (weighted): 2152.021
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 93
End: 94
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2417

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 48 50
2.3%
2 Married monogamous 1944 1943
90.3%
3 Married polygamous 22 20
1%
4 Divorced/Separated 60 58
2.7%
5 Widowed 78 80
3.7%
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 12+ 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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