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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2005

Palestine, 2005 - 2006
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2005_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of 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 [Standardized version] (PMART)

Data file: Palestine05-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 9242
Valid (weighted): 9225.633
Invalid: 4851
Invalid (weighted): 4815.294
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 27
End: 28
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2366

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Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 4294 4280
46.4%
2 Married monogamous 4565 4560
49.4%
3 Married polygamous 22 20
0.2%
4 Divorced/Separated 148 148
1.6%
5 Widowed 213 217
2.4%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 4851 4815
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 & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).
Universe
All individuals aged 12+ 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 "married polygamous" category was only generated for the head of the household if the number of spouses exceeds "1".

Since divorced/separated or widowed were aggregated in an “other category”, with no other indicators that enable identifying the actual marital status, an assumption was put to re-indentify the marital status according to the age, members aged 60 years or older were assumed to be widowed, where others aged less than 60 years were assumed to be divorced./separated
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