Individual consumption expenditure of household. Ideally, corresponds to Codes 01 to 12 of the COICOP classification
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Expenditure aggregates.pdf indicates items aggregated under each expenditure type
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data Dictionary.pdf/Expenditure Aggregates.pdf)
Others
Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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In cases where the original survey provides expenditures according to the COICOP classification, this variable is the sum over the expenditure variables above. Otherwise, it is either derived from the "total expenditures" variable in the original survey (if available) or is left blank.
=FOODEXP+ALCOEXP+APPEXP+HOUSEXP+EQUIPEXP+MEDEXP+TRANEXP+COMMEXP+CULTEXP+EDUCEXP+RESTOEXP+MISCEXP
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Amounts of expenditure are provided in an aggregated form in Millime.
All "per capita" amounts were multiplied by the number of household members to compute amounts per household.
Amounts were divided by 1000 to convert it to dinar .
Some detailed household expenditures provided by item, source and in some cases occasion of expenditure were summated and compared to the aggregated amounts and found acceptably similar, hence the aggregates originally provided from the statistical agency were used in the harmonized data file.
Aggregates under each expenditure type are identified in the "Expenditure Aggregates" file.