Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_HD_V2.0

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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Feb 19, 2014

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Oct 30, 2014

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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23428

Valid (weighted): 23430.118

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 35

End: 36

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 50

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
10	Household business	7810	7849	33.5%
20	Salaries and wages	11785	11737	50.1%
30	Remittances from country or abroad	3764	3769	16.1%
40	Pensions	0	0	0%
50	Other	69	75	0.3%

Description

Definition

Main income source of the household

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

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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This variable may not exist in most of the surveys but can be constructed from the individual files

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The main source of income for the household was generated using variables indicating the total net annual income per household by source of income, assuming that the maximum value of income by sources indicated is the main source of income, i.e., if the household income from wages is higher than that from agricultural activities, the main source of income is assumed to be wages and salaries.

Cash Remittances includes pensions.

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