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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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Sep 17, 2025
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Urban/Rural residence (RURURB)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 21
End: 21
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Rural 6756
54.2%
1 Urban 5707
45.8%
2 Refugee camps 0
0%
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 whether the region is urban/rural
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf) if available

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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In case the country has refugee camps (as in Palestine), the "refugee camp" category is coded "2"


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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