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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2023

Palestine, 2023 - 2024
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PAL_LFS_2023_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Jul 16, 2026
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Marital status of the head [Standardized version] (MARTHD)

Data file: Palestine23-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 22753
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 56
End: 57
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Never married 548
2.4%
2 Married monogamous 19285
84.8%
3 Married polygamous 56
0.2%
4 Divorced/Separated 965
4.2%
5 Widowed 1899
8.3%
99 Not stated 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
Heads aged 12+
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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This variable should not be imputed for household members for whom the information was not collected (i.e. it can only be generated for those to whom the question was asked since the youngest age at which the information is collected may differ depending on the survey).
Married only refers to formal marriages (including legally married).
Polygamous unions include males with multiple spouses. The number of spouses in the household can be used to indicate polygamy.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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In the raw data, an aggregated "other" category is provided to indicate the divorced, separated or widowed. To split the original category, those younger than 60 years of age were assumed to be divorced/separated, while those aged 60 years or older were assumed to be widowed.
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