Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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In cases where the original survey provides expenditures according to the COICOP classification, this variable is the sum over the expenditure variables above. Otherwise, it is either derived from the "total expenditures" variable in the original survey (if available) or is left blank.
=FOODEXP+ALCOEXP+APPEXP+HOUSEXP+EQUIPEXP+MEDEXP+TRANEXP+COMMEXP+CULTEXP+EDUCEXP+RESTOEXP+MISCEXP
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only one consumption type (code 2) is provided for food items and 3 types for non-food products in the 2002 survey data, but with no code identification/labeling. Since no differentiation is required between purchased, own produced or in kind expenses for non-food items, all expenses were assumed to be for purchased items.
Expenses items for which the codes are not labeled were allocated under expenditure aggregates based on their coding group.
Since the period over which the expenditure data are collected is not identified in the data file, a check on average expenses on food, non food and total expenditure was done and compared to the figures provided by DOS. It was found that amounts provided are already annualized.
