Labor Force Survey, LFS 2020

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2020

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EGY_LFS_2020_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Marital status [Standardized version] (mart)

Data file: Egypt 2020-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 166583

Invalid: 114904

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 71

End: 75

Width: 5

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	36491	21.9%
2	Married monogamous	114247	68.6%
3	Married polygamous	134	0.1%
4	Divorced/Separated	2850	1.7%
5	Widowed	12861	7.7%
99	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		114904

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 & partnership (even if not married, an individual can still be legally recognized as being in a relationship).

Universe

Individuals aged 18+

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

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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 male head. For the other individuals, we consider those having the status married as monogamous.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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