Labor Force Survey, LFS 2007

Egypt, 2007

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2007_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics

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

Data file: Egypt 2007-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 77191

Invalid: 24

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	1833	2.4%
200	Married monogamous	0	0%
210	Legally married	42	0.1%
220	Married	62776	81.3%
300	Married polygamous	234	0.3%
400	Divorced/Separated	0	0%
410	Separated	0	0%
420	Divorced	717	0.9%
500	Widowed	11589	15%
999	Not stated	0	0%
Sysmiss		24

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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