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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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Type of dwelling [Standardized version] (DWLTYP)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 34
End: 34
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 House 1790
14.4%
2 Villa 8
0.1%
3 Apartment 10171
81.6%
4 Others 494
4%
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
Type of the dwelling
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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This variable mainly distinguishes between villa, apartments and others
"House" includes traditional, modern or Arabic house etc.
"Villa" includes palace, villa or a floor in a villa, duplex etc.
"Other" includes clay/reed house, primitive house, caravan etc.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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