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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Sep 15, 2014

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Self-employment income (SINC)

Data file: Egypt12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 3321

Valid (weighted): 3283.188

Invalid: 4207

Invalid (weighted): 4243.429

Minimum: 72

Maximum: 360000

Mean: 17560.187

Mean (weighted): 17792.024

Standard deviation: 16017.913

Standard deviation (weighted): 16744.923

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 935

End: 943

Width: 9

Range: 72 - 360000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V280

Description

Definition

Profit/loss from unincorporated enterprises. The income is recorded gross of social insurance contributions (but net of expenses).

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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Self-employment income is often collected with a different reference period than other more regular incomes; for example, it could refer to the last financial year for which business accounts for the purposes of taxation were prepared.
Includes imputed income from owner occupied dwellings and own produced food for home consumption
If farm and non-farm self-employment income are not supplied separately, users can try to split them at the individual level

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Includes : Income from agricultural projects and Income from non-agricultural projects

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