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 amounts were provided in SDG.
Weekly and monthly amounts were annualized by multiplying them by 52 and 12, respectively.
An attempt to estimate an imputed amount for the household own stock, own produced and gifts received was conducted using the unit of measurement, the estimated unit price and the quantity used of each product type, provided in the dataset.
The estimation was performed on both the product and the household levels. Inconsistencies and discrepancies between the average unit price and the unit type were first detected which led to primarily question the credibility of the estimates of the unit prices provided. The doubts in the quality of the unit prices data was confirmed when the Gini coefficient computed using the annual expenditure that includes the imputed amounts of own stock, own produced and gifts received exceeded 90%. While that computed using the total expenditure on only purchased items was equal to 38.27% compared to 35.29% derived from the World Bank tool of poverty indicators (PovCal).
Accordingly, expenditure amounts on purchased products only were disseminated in the harmonized data file.
Items grouped under each expenditure type are identified in the "Expenditure Aggregates" file.
