Household Socio-Economic Survey, IHSES 2012

Iraq, 2012 - 2013

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Reference ID

IRQ_IHSES_2012_HD_V2.0

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Economic Research Forum, Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)

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Self-employment income (SINC)

Data file: Iraq12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 9654

Valid (weighted): 13443119.177

Invalid: 15492

Invalid (weighted): 20761918.874

Minimum: 2

Maximum: 8400000

Mean: 9947.867

Mean (weighted): 10720.708

Standard deviation: 98555.094

Standard deviation (weighted): 63481.481

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 1175

End: 1184

Width: 10

Range: 2 - 8400000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1264

Description

Definition

Profit/loss from unincorporated enterprises. The income is recorded gross of social insurance contributions (but net of expenses).

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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Self-employment income is often collected with a different reference period than other more regular incomes; for example, it could refer to the last financial year for which business accounts for the purposes of taxation were prepared.
Includes imputed income from owner occupied dwellings and own produced food for home consumption
If farm and non-farm self-employment income are not supplied separately, users can try to split them at the individual level

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Agricultural activity income
Industrial activity
Trade activity
Construction activity
Transportation activity
Services activity
Employer and self employed income is negative in
127 cases where the production cost is higher than
the revenue, accordingly the net profit is negative
and the total disposable income for those cases is
reporting a negative value.

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