Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_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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Feb 19, 2014

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Oct 30, 2014

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Total expenditures (TOTEXP)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23428

Valid (weighted): 23430.118

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 1242.5

Maximum: 542211

Mean: 17087.006

Mean (weighted): 17044.97

Standard deviation: 12315.726

Standard deviation (weighted): 12634.329

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 938

End: 946

Width: 9

Range: 1242.5 - 542211

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

Description

Definition

Individual consumption expenditure of household. Ideally, corresponds to Codes 01 to 12 of the COICOP classification

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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In cases where the original survey provides expenditures according to the COICOP classification, this variable is the sum over the expenditure variables above. Otherwise, it is either derived from the "total expenditures" variable in the original survey (if available) or is left blank.
=FOODEXP+ALCOEXP+APPEXP+HOUSEXP+EQUIPEXP+MEDEXP+TRANEXP+COMMEXP+CULTEXP+EDUCEXP+RESTOEXP+MISCEXP

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

Expenditure data was annualized based on the periods provided by CAPMAS for each data file indicating expenditure on one of the items.

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

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