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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022
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Reference ID
EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Sep 17, 2025
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Sep 17, 2025
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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 32
End: 33
Width: 2
Range: 10 - 50
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
10 Household business 2900
23.3%
20 Salaries and wages 6654
53.4%
30 Remittances from country or abroad 2869
23%
40 Pensions 0
0%
50 Other 40
0.3%
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 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.
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