Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2012/2013

Egypt, 2012 - 2013

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2012_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Sep 15, 2014

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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Egypt12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 7527

Valid (weighted): 7525.373

Invalid: 1

Invalid (weighted): 1.244

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 87

End: 88

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V280

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	132	136	1.8%
2	Married monogamous	6148	6148	81.7%
3	Married polygamous	36	35	0.5%
4	Divorced/Separated	115	112	1.5%
5	Widowed	1096	1095	14.5%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		1	1

Description

Definition

Legal administrative status concerning marriage of the head

Universe

All heads aged 18+ 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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The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category was recoded missing.

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

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