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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
Metadata
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Feb 19, 2014
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Literacy status of the head (LITHD)

Data file: Egypt99-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23975
Valid (weighted): 23975.956
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 91
End: 91
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2456

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
0 No 7832 8698
36.3%
1 Can read & write 16143 15278
63.7%
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
This variable indicates whether the head is literate (can read and write) or not
Universe
All heads aged 10+ years
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

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

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Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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A person is considered literate if they can both read and write and not just one or the other. A semi-literate person (one who can read, but cannot write) is said to be illiterate.
In the case where the survey asks only whether a person can read but does not ask if they can write, and in case there no information in the questionnaire about the reading and writing ability literacy cannot be determined, these are coded as missing.
If there are no questions about the read and write ability but the educational attainment is elementary or upper the individual is considered literate

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