Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2008

Jordan, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

JOR_2008_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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Literacy status of the first spouse (LITSP_1)

Data file: Jordan08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2370

Valid (weighted): 901549.943

Invalid: 376

Invalid (weighted): 136943.649

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 128

End: 128

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2472

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
0	No	339	115631	12.8%
1	Can read & write	2031	785919	87.2%
Sysmiss		376	136944

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the first spouse is literate (can read and write) or not

Universe

All spouses 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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A person is considered literate if they can both read and write and not just one or the other. A semi-literate person (one who can read, but cannot write) is said to be illiterate.
In the case where the survey asks only whether a person can read but does not ask if they can write, and in case there no information in the questionnaire about the reading and writing ability literacy cannot be determined, these are coded as missing.
If there are no questions about the read and write ability but the educational attainment is elementary or upper the individual is considered literate

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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