Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2002

Jordan, 2002 - 2003

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Reference ID

JOR_2002_HEIS_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Department 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: Jordan02-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 9996

Valid (weighted): 3168296.85

Invalid: 6198

Invalid (weighted): 1874046.39

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 31

End: 32

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2738

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	4656	1464942	46.2%
2	Married monogamous	4856	1551323	49%
3	Married polygamous	37	8644	0.3%
4	Divorced/Separated	67	21785	0.7%
5	Widowed	380	121603	3.8%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		6198	1874046

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 15+ 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".

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