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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2017

Palestine, 2016 - 2017
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2017_HD_V3.0
Producer(s)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
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Oct 02, 2024
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Health facilities (HFACIL)

Data file: Palestine17-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 3736
Valid (weighted): 3737.457
Invalid: 3
Invalid (weighted): 1.543
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 53
End: 53
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 3
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2944

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Less than 1 KM 665 904
24.2%
2 1-5 KM 2483 2363
63.2%
3 More than 5 KM 588 470
12.6%
Sysmiss 3 2
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 proximity to health centers and hospitals
Universe
All households
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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This variables is a summary of variables indicating the distance to health center and hospital
In case we have different ordinal variables indicating proximity to different health establishments (separately) such to private doctors, hospitals health centers , etc. we take the average.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Indicates the proximity to health centers and hospitals including doctor, health centre, hospital, and mother and child health centre. The variable was generated as a “round average” of the variables indicating the distance to different health facilities.
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