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

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022

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EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Literacy status of the second spouse (LITSP_2)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 36

Invalid: 12427

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 717

End: 717

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	26	72.2%
1	Can read AND write	10	27.8%
Sysmiss		12427

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the second spouse is literate (can read and write) or not

Universe

All spouses aged 10+ years

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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A person is considered literate if they can both read and write and not just one or the other. A semi-literate person (one who can read, but cannot write) is said to be illiterate.
In the case where the survey asks only whether a person can read but does not ask if they can write, and in case there no information in the questionnaire about the reading and writing ability literacy cannot be determined, these are coded as missing.
If there are no questions about the read and write ability but the educational attainment is elementary or upper the individual is considered literate

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category was recoded missing.

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