Labor Force Survey, LFS 2009

Egypt, 2009

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EGY_LFS_2009_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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

Data file: Egypt 2009-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 75016

Invalid: 23

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 75

End: 77

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
100	Never married	1558	2.1%
200	Married monogamous	0	0%
210	Legally married	31	0%
220	Married	59947	79.9%
300	Married polygamous	236	0.3%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0%
420	Divorced	659	0.9%
500	Widowed	12585	16.8%
999	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		23

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 (detailed version of coding).

Universe

Male Heads aged 18+
Female Heads aged 16+

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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The "married polygamous" category was generated for the head of the household only if the number of spouses exceeds "1". The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category were recoded missing.

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