Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2008

Jordan, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

JOR_2008_HEIS_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Feb 19, 2014

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Literacy status (PLIT)

Data file: Jordan08-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 9931

Valid (weighted): 3748456.57

Invalid: 5511

Invalid (weighted): 2048998.392

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 128

End: 128

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2408

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
0	No	839	287852	7.7%
1	Can read & write	9092	3460605	92.3%
Sysmiss		5511	2048998

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is literate (can read and write) or not

Universe

All individuals aged 15+ years

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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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

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated using the education status

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