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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022
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EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Marital status of the head [Detailed version] (MARTHD_D)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12461
Invalid: 2
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 790
End: 792
Width: 3
Range: 100 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
100 Never married 202
1.6%
200 Married monogamous 0
0%
210 Legally married 2
0%
220 Married 9944
79.8%
300 Married polygamous 36
0.3%
400 Divorced/Separated 0
0%
410 Separated 82
0.7%
420 Divorced 335
2.7%
500 Widowed 1860
14.9%
999 Not stated 0
0%
Sysmiss 2
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
Universe
All heads aged 18+ years
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

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


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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