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

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Feb 19, 2014

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Expenses on housing and utilities (HOUSEXP)

Data file: Palestine98-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2851

Valid (weighted): 2836.027

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 319.2

Maximum: 277800

Mean: 7828.558

Mean (weighted): 7924.241

Standard deviation: 7352.074

Standard deviation (weighted): 7735.624

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 611

End: 619

Width: 9

Range: 319.2 - 277800

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2172

Description

Definition

Expenses on housing (actual and imputed rentals and maintenance and repair of the dwelling), water (water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling), electricity, gas and other fuels. Renovation costs as well as expenditure on furniture are excluded, as well as expenditure on mortgage (both the capital and interest part). Ideally, corresponds to Code 04 of the COICOP classification.

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Expenditure aggregates.pdf indicates items aggregated under each expenditure type

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data Dictionary.pdf/Expenditure Aggregates.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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=ARHOUS+IMPREN+REPDW+WDWE+EDWE

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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