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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2009

Palestine, 2009 - 2010
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2009_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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Feb 19, 2014
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Palestine09-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 3848
Valid (weighted): 3848
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 89
End: 90
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2445

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 78 72
1.9%
2 Married monogamous 3382 3394
88.2%
3 Married polygamous 43 41
1.1%
4 Divorced/Separated 36 33
0.9%
5 Widowed 309 307
8%
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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