Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 1995/1996

Palestine, 1995 - 1996

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_1996_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Total expenditures (TOTEXP)

Data file: Palestine96-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 4547

Valid (weighted): 4499.725

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 1348.2

Maximum: 437356

Mean: 35502.536

Mean (weighted): 35822.522

Standard deviation: 26457.586

Standard deviation (weighted): 26624.508

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 960

End: 968

Width: 9

Range: 1348.2 - 437356

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2172

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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All expenditure items were summated from the products data file (indicating monthly amounts in NIS).

All monthly amounts were annualized.

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

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