Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2006

Palestine, 2006 - 2007

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_2006_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Feb 19, 2014

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Oct 30, 2014

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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Palestine06-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 1274

Valid (weighted): 1273.446

Invalid: 7

Invalid (weighted): 7.554

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 32

End: 33

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 50

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2454

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
10	Household business	332	342	26.8%
20	Salaries and wages	683	671	52.7%
30	Remittances from country or abroad	103	105	8.3%
40	Pensions	121	118	9.2%
50	Other	35	37	2.9%
Sysmiss		7	8

Description

Definition

Main income source of the household

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

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

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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This variable may not exist in most of the surveys but can be constructed from the individual files

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Main source of income was generated using H29_1 to H29_13 indicating a ranking for the source of income from 1 to 5 for each source. The rank “1” for each source of income was used to compute the harmonized variable, and identify the main source of income for the household.

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