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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 1998

Palestine, 1998
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_1998_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
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Feb 19, 2014
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Health facilities (HFACIL)

Data file: Palestine98-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2851
Valid (weighted): 2836.027
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 50
End: 50
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 3
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2172

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Less than 1 KM 1018 1039
36.6%
2 1-5 KM 1781 1746
61.6%
3 More than 5 KM 52 51
1.8%
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
Indicates the proximity to health centers and hospitals
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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This variables is a summary of variables indicating the distance to health center and hospital
In case we have different ordinal variables indicating proximity to different health establishments (separately) such to private doctors, hospitals health centers , etc. we take the average.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated as a “round average” of the 3 variables (originally categorical variables) indicating the distance to Public/Private doctor, Health center and Hospital.
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