Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 1999/2000

Egypt, 1999 - 2000

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_1999_HD_V2.0

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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Expenses on food and non-alcoholic beverages (FOODEXP)

Data file: Egypt99-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23975

Valid (weighted): 23975.956

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 281.64

Maximum: 40085.4

Mean: 4057.713

Mean (weighted): 3929.162

Standard deviation: 2157.012

Standard deviation (weighted): 2077.588

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 219

End: 226

Width: 8

Range: 281.64 - 40085.4

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2456

Description

Definition

Expenses on food and non-alcoholic beverages. Ideally, corresponds to Code 01 of the COICOP classification (SUM of 01).

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Expenditure aggregates.pdf indicates items aggregated under each expenditure type

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data Dictionary.pdf/Expenditure Aggregates.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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All food expenditures include also own grown products expenses and gifts/in-kind received food. Expenses on take away food and meals taken in restaurants are included under code 11
= TOTPFOOD+TOTOWNP+TOTGIKD

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Expenditure aggregates are based on the expenditure data already aggregated provided (no detailed amounts for expenditure items are available).

Some items are missing in the expenditure data, such as the rent related variables, the majority of the housing expenditure, and durables.

Items aggregated under each expenditure type are identified in "Expenditure Aggregates" file.

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