Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2010

Jordan, 2010 - 2011

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Reference ID

JOR_2010_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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Household composition (HCOMP)

Data file: Jordan10-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 2845

Valid (weighted): 1134177

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2485

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	1-2 adults, no child	299	127968	11.3%
2	1-2 adults, 1-2 children	387	151283	13.3%
3	1-2 adult, 3 or more children	734	305060	26.9%
4	3 adults or more, 0-1 child	717	273914	24.2%
5	3 adults or more, 2-3 children	411	159935	14.1%
6	3 adults or more, 4 children or more	297	116017	10.2%

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

Indicates the composition of the household with the number of adults and of children using standardized family models: 2 adults no children, 2 adults 1-2 children etc..

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Generated by ERF
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Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf) if available

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Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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This variables might not exist in all surveys and can be constructed using the information in the household and person files.
In case the variable is generated, the adult is defined as either a:
- HH member aged 18 years or older
- HH head even if aged less than 18 years
- a married HH member even if aged less than 18 years

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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