Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0

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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Household composition (HCOMP)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 29

End: 29

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1-2 adults, no child	2572	20.6%
2	1-2 adults, 1-2 children	2756	22.1%
3	1-2 adult, 3 or more children	2833	22.7%
4	3 adults or more, 0-1 child	2685	21.5%
5	3 adults or more, 2-3 children	1308	10.5%
6	3 adults or more, 4 children or more	309	2.5%

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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