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

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2017 - 2018

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EGY_HIECS_2017_HD_V3.0

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Partnership and parenthood status of the head (PARTHD)

Data file: Egypt17-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12485

Valid (weighted): 12485.883

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 102

End: 102

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V855

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Head with partner, with no children	1253	1319	10.6%
2	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child<18	7127	7014	56.2%
3	Head with partner, with children, Youngest child 18+	1656	1677	13.4%
4	Single Head, with no children	1088	1116	8.9%
5	Single Head, with children, Youngest child<18	433	415	3.3%
6	Single Head, with children, Youngest child 18+	928	946	7.6%

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

ERF recode that allows users to identify heads as having a partner (either married or unmarried) versus not having a partner, as well as parents as opposed to non-parents, using a single variable

Universe

All heads

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

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Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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Partnership status for head may be restricted to civic status, parenthood status assumes that the children of the head are also children of the spouse.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by ERF.
Single head is defined as never married, divorced, separated or widowed.
Head with partner is defined as married head.

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