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 consumption amounts were provided in USD.
For food items, amounts provided in the original data are for imputed and collected Consumption in current USD (7 days), while for non food items amounts provided indicate the total imputed and collected Purchase value in current USD (7 days).
Rental amounts provided (in the household data file) in Somali shillings and Somaliland shillings were used and converted to USD.
Weekly and monthly amounts were annualized by multiplying them by 52 and 12, respectively.
Following the case of other harmonized surveys, the price of durable goods (in USD) purchased during the survey year were added to the food and non-food amounts consumed/purchased during 2016.
The technical notes document disseminated with the survey materials includes a detailed description of the consumption/expenditure aggregates, in addition to all cleaning procedures run on this part.
Items grouped under each expenditure type are identified in the "Expenditure Aggregates" file.