Population, Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, IPUMS

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Marital status (EG1996A_MARST)

Data file: EGY1996_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 199

End: 199

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

<svar a="all" v="EG96A090 EG96A419"><span class="em">13. Marital status</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Underage<br />[] 2 Never married<br />[] 3 Married<br />[] 4 Engaged<br />[] 5 Divorce<br />[] 6 Widowed</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
2	Never married
3	Engaged or contractually married
4	Married
5	Divorced
6	Widowed
9	Unknown

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

This variable indicates the person's marital status.

Universe

Egypt 1996: Males age 18+ and females age 16+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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Concept

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