Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2017/2018

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2017 - 2018

Get Microdata

Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2017_HD_V3.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Feb 21, 2021

Last modified

Jun 12, 2023

Page views

194868

Downloads

16754

Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Egypt17-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12485

Valid (weighted): 12485.883

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 40

End: 41

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 50

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V855

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
10	Household business	2753	2800	22.4%
20	Salaries and wages	6484	6389	51.2%
30	Remittances from country or abroad	3219	3273	26.2%
40	Pensions	0	0	0%
50	Other	29	24	0.2%

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

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
----------------------------------
The main source of income for the household was generated using variables indicating the total net annual income per household by source of income, assuming that the maximum value of income by sources indicated is the main source of income, i.e., if the household income from wages is higher than that from agricultural activities, the main source of income is assumed to be wages and salaries.

Cash Remittances includes pensions.

Back to Catalog