Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2012/2013

Egypt, 2012 - 2013

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2012_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Sep 15, 2014

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Household composition (HCOMP)

Data file: Egypt12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 7528

Valid (weighted): 7526.617

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 31

End: 31

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V280

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	1-2 adults, no child	1276	1285	17.1%
2	1-2 adults, 1-2 children	1660	1663	22.1%
3	1-2 adult, 3 or more children	1581	1579	21%
4	3 adults or more, 0-1 child	1692	1699	22.6%
5	3 adults or more, 2-3 children	992	980	13%
6	3 adults or more, 4 children or more	327	321	4.3%

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

Indicates the composition of the household with the number of adults and of children using standardized family models: 2 adults no children, 2 adults 1-2 children etc..

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Generated by ERF
OR
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf) if available

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Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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This variables might not exist in all surveys and can be constructed using the information in the household and person files.
In case the variable is generated, the adult is defined as either a:
- HH member aged 18 years or older
- HH head even if aged less than 18 years
- a married HH member even if aged less than 18 years

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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