Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2012/2013

Egypt, 2012 - 2013

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2012_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Sep 15, 2014

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Oct 30, 2014

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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Egypt12-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 7528

Valid (weighted): 7526.617

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 35

End: 36

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 50

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V280

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
10	Household business	2130	2110	28%
20	Salaries and wages	3934	3936	52.3%
30	Remittances from country or abroad	1444	1457	19.4%
40	Pensions	0	0	0%
50	Other	20	24	0.3%

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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The main source of income for the household was generated using variables indicating the total net annual income per household by source of income, assuming that the maximum value of income by sources indicated is the main source of income, i.e., if the household income from wages is higher than that from agricultural activities, the main source of income is assumed to be wages and salaries.

Cash Remittances includes pensions.

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