Home / Central Data Catalog / EGY_HIECS_2004_HD_V2.0 / variable [V2929]
central

Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2004/2005

Egypt, 2004 - 2005
Get Microdata
Reference ID
EGY_HIECS_2004_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
Collections
Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Feb 19, 2014
Last modified
Oct 30, 2014
Page views
270417
Downloads
6250

Marital status of the father [Standardized version] (PFMART)

Data file: Egypt04-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 103064
Valid (weighted): 102707.518
Invalid: 104367
Invalid (weighted): 104321.51
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 49
End: 50
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2913

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Never married 0 0
0%
2 Married monogamous 100852 100520
97.9%
3 Married polygamous 744 728
0.7%
4 Divorced/Separated 163 165
0.2%
5 Widowed 1305 1294
1.3%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 104367 104322
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
Indicates the Marital status of the father [Standardized version]
Universe
All individuals
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Generated by ERF

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
----------------------
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
----------------------------------
The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category was recoded missing.

The "married polygamous" category was only generated for the head of the household if the number of spouses exceeds "1".
Back to Catalog