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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Self-employment income (SINC)

Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 4415

Invalid: 8048

Minimum: 500

Maximum: 1150000

Mean: 48019.83

Standard deviation: 42903.833

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 635

End: 644

Width: 10

Range: 50 - 7000000

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Profit/loss from unincorporated enterprises. The income is recorded gross of social insurance contributions (but net of expenses).

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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Self-employment income is often collected with a different reference period than other more regular incomes; for example, it could refer to the last financial year for which business accounts for the purposes of taxation were prepared.
Includes imputed income from owner occupied dwellings and own produced food for home consumption
If farm and non-farm self-employment income are not supplied separately, users can try to split them at the individual level

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Includes : Income from agricultural projects and Income from non-agricultural projects

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