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Population Housing and Establishments Census 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2006
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EGY_2006_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Marital status (EG2006A_0407)

Data file: EGY2006-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 154
End: 154
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 15-20 for all persons]




15. Marital status

[For males 18 years or older]
[For females 16 years or older]

[] 1 Under age
[] 2 Never married
[] 3 Contractually married
[] 4 Married
[] 5 Divorced
[] 6 Widowed
Categories
Value Category
1 Never married
2 Contractually married (signed marriage contract)
3 Married
4 Divorced
5 Widowed
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.
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Table 1: Household characteristics




7. Marital status
[For males 18 years or older and females 16 years or older]

There is one square to write one of the following answers according to the status of each member. There is also a line below the square to write the verbal responses.

1. Below age: for the previously specified age categories that have never been married. If they were married, like what happens in some villages, their answer would be (4) "Married".
2. Has never been married: for males 18 years or older and females 16 years or older that have never been married.
3. Contractually married: for members who have been contractually married but haven't had a wedding yet.
4. Married
5. Divorced
6. Widowed

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the marital status of the person.
Universe
Males age 18+ and females age 16+

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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