Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_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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Feb 19, 2014

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

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23425

Valid (weighted): 23427.087

Invalid: 3

Invalid (weighted): 3.032

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 93

End: 95

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	350	352	1.5%
200	Married monogamous	0	0	0%
210	Legally married	9	8	0%
220	Married	19405	19416	82.9%
300	Married polygamous	117	117	0.5%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0	0%
420	Divorced	272	266	1.1%
500	Widowed	3272	3268	14%
999	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		3	3

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

Male Heads aged 18+ years

Female Heads aged 16 + years

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

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

Others

Notes

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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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