Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2010/2011

Egypt, 2010 - 2011

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2010_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: Egypt10-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 7715

Valid (weighted): 7716.246

Invalid: 4

Invalid (weighted): 3.914

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 88

End: 90

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2940

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Never married	162	161	2.1%
200	Married monogamous	0	0	0%
210	Legally married	3	3	0%
220	Married	6387	6405	83%
300	Married polygamous	20	19	0.2%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0	0%
420	Divorced	88	85	1.1%
500	Widowed	1055	1043	13.5%
999	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		4	4

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 recoded/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.

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