Socio-Economic Survey, HSOCIOECOS 2018

Palestine, 2018

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Reference ID

PAL_SOCIOECOS_2018_HD_V2

Producer(s)

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Special Rounds Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Nov 05, 2023

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Marital status of the head [Detailed version] (MARTHD_D)

Data file: Palestine18-SocioEconomic HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 9926

Valid (weighted): 9926

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 90

End: 92

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V16468

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	144	187	1.9%
200	Married monogamous	0	0	0%
210	Legally married	0	0	0%
220	Married	8902	8725	87.9%
300	Married polygamous	69	56	0.6%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0	0%
410	Separated	22	22	0.2%
420	Divorced	76	89	0.9%
500	Widowed	712	846	8.5%
999	Not stated	1	1	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 (detailed version of coding).

Universe

Heads aged 14+

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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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In the raw data, an aggregated "other" category is provided to indicate the divorced, separated or widowed. To split the original category, those younger than 60 years of age were assumed to be divorced/separated, while those aged 60 years or older were assumed to be widowed.

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