Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2011

Palestine, 2011 - 2012

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_2011_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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Feb 19, 2014

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Total expenditures (TOTEXP)

Data file: Palestine11-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 4317

Valid (weighted): 4317

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 5152.8

Maximum: 943959

Mean: 65682.969

Mean (weighted): 66883.637

Standard deviation: 55323.276

Standard deviation (weighted): 53271.83

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 1050

End: 1058

Width: 9

Range: 5152.8 - 943959

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2460

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

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