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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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Source of energy for lighting (SLIGHT)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23428
Valid (weighted): 23430.118
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 48
End: 48
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2691

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Public network 23279 23279
99.4%
2 Private 0 0
0%
3 Gas 14 14
0.1%
4 Kerosene 117 120
0.5%
5 Others 18 17
0.1%
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
Distinguish between public and private sources of electricity and other sources of lighting
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

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

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Private electricity includes community and private generators and cooperative networks
"Others" may include sources that are presented independently in the standardized value if the survey is not enough detailed (example it may include gas and kerosene)


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The source of electricity is assumed to be public since there is no distinction between public and private networks
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