Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 1998

Palestine, 1998

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_1998_HD_V2.0

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Outpatient and Hospital services expenditures (MEDSERV)

Data file: Palestine98-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 1316

Valid (weighted): 1299.91

Invalid: 1535

Invalid (weighted): 1536.117

Minimum: 12

Maximum: 240480

Mean: 1689.522

Mean (weighted): 1681.557

Standard deviation: 7930.759

Standard deviation (weighted): 7818.775

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 763

End: 771

Width: 9

Range: 12 - 240480

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2172

Description

Definition

Medical, dental and paramedical services delivered to outpatients by medical, dental and paramedical practitioners and auxiliaries.
Services of general and specialist hospitals, the services of medical centers, maternity centers, nursing homes and convalescent homes which chiefly provide in-patient health care, the services of institutions serving old people in which medical monitoring is an essential component and the services of rehabilitation centers providing in-patient health care and rehabilitative therapy where the objective is to treat the patient rather than to provide long-term support

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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The services may be delivered at home, in individual or group consulting facilities, dispensaries or the outpatient clinics of hospitals and the like.
Hospital day-care and home-based hospital treatment are included as are hospices for terminally ill persons.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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