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Socio-Economic Survey, HSOCIOECOS 2018

Palestine, 2018
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PAL_SOCIOECOS_2018_HD_V2
Producer(s)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Palestine18-SocioEconomic HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 9926
Valid (weighted): 9926
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 82
End: 83
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V16468

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 144 187
1.9%
2 Married monogamous 8902 8725
87.9%
3 Married polygamous 69 56
0.6%
4 Divorced/Separated 98 111
1.1%
5 Widowed 712 846
8.5%
99 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.
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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This variable should not be imputed for household members for whom the information was not collected (i.e. it can only be generated for those to whom the question was asked since the youngest age at which the information is collected may differ depending on the survey).
Married only refers to formal marriages (including legally married).
Polygamous unions include males with multiple spouses. The number of spouses in the household can be used to indicate polygamy.


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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