Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2017

Palestine, 2016 - 2017

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_2017_HD_V3.0

Producer(s)

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Oct 02, 2024

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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Palestine17-HH-V3

Overview

Valid: 3739

Valid (weighted): 3739

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 36

End: 37

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 55

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2944

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
10	Household business	616	542	14.5%
20	Salaries and wages	2356	2363	63.2%
30	Remittances from country or abroad	246	247	6.6%
35	Remittances and other sources	369	438	11.7%
40	Pensions	121	121	3.2%
50		31	28	0.8%
55	Other	0	0	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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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Remittances and other sources of income are aggregated in the original variable provided.
Therefore, a new code "35" was added to the variable to indicate both sources.

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