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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
Collections
Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Sep 17, 2025
Last modified
Sep 17, 2025
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Number of rooms (ROOM)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 12463
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 10
Mean: 3.586
Standard deviation: 0.931
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 42
End: 43
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 12
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 168
1.3%
2 757
6.1%
3 4958
39.8%
4 5284
42.4%
5 946
7.6%
6 274
2.2%
7 22
0.2%
8 33
0.3%
9 7
0.1%
10 14
0.1%
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
Number of rooms excluding bathroom and kitchen
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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In some surveys there is no indication whether the bathroom and kitchen are counted in the number of rooms or not, we assume they are excluded


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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