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

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022

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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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Partnership and parenthood status of the head (PARTHD)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 825

End: 825

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Head with partner, with no children	1195	9.6%
2	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child<18	7312	58.7%
3	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child 18+	1473	11.8%
4	Single Head, with no children	1158	9.3%
5	Single Head, with children, Youngest child<18	444	3.6%
6	Single Head, with children, Youngest child 18+	881	7.1%

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

ERF recode that allows users to identify heads as having a partner (either married or unmarried) versus not having a partner, as well as parents as opposed to non-parents, using a single variable

Universe

All heads

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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Partnership status for head may be restricted to civic status, parenthood status assumes that the children of the head are also children of the spouse.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by ERF.
Single head is defined as never married, divorced, separated or widowed.
Head with partner is defined as married head.

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