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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, 2005

West Bank and Gaza, 2005 - 2006
Reference ID
WBG_2005_PECS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Marital status (PMART)

Data file: Pal_2005_Person

Overview

Valid: 0
Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 37
End: 37
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Never married
2 Married monogamous
3 Married polygamous
4 Divorced/Separated
5 Widowed
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 & partnership (even if not married, a person can be still legally recognized as being in a relationship).
Universe
All individuals aged 12+

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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Since divorced/separated or widowed were aggregated in an “other category”, with no other indicators that enable identifying the actual marital status, an assumption was put to re-indentify the marital status according to the age, members aged 60 years or older were assumed to be widowed, where others aged less than 60 years were assumed to be divorced./separated
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