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Household Socio-Economic Survey, IHSES 2006/2007

Iraq, 2006 - 2007
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IRQ_IHSES_2007_HD_V2.0
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Economic Research Forum, Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Iraq07-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 17822
Valid (weighted): 4385047.315
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 148
End: 149
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2326

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 336 82889
1.9%
2 Married monogamous 15297 3751254
85.5%
3 Married polygamous 267 49681
1.1%
4 Divorced/Separated 156 41760
1%
5 Widowed 1766 459463
10.5%
99 Not stated 0 0
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
All heads 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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Should not be imputed, it can be generated only for those to whom the question was asked (in other words, the youngest age at which information is collected may differ depending on the survey).
Married refers to only formal marriages (including legally married). Polygamous unions includes males with multiple spouses.
Number of spouses in household can be applied to compute polygamy.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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