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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2009

Palestine, 2009 - 2010
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2009_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Collections
Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
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Feb 19, 2014
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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Palestine09-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 597
Valid (weighted): 556.99
Invalid: 3251
Invalid (weighted): 3291.01
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 34
End: 35
Width: 2
Range: 10 - 50
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2445

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
10 Household business 216 211
37.9%
20 Salaries and wages 143 142
25.5%
30 Remittances from country or abroad 56 61
10.9%
40 Pensions 0 0
0%
50 Other 182 143
25.8%
Sysmiss 3251 3291
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
Main income source of the household
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Generated by ERF
OR
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf) if available

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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This variable may not exist in most of the surveys but can be constructed from the individual files


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original variable available to generate an indicator on main source of income for the household is only provided for 595 households representing 15.5 per cent of the total survey sample
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