Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2004/2005

Egypt, 2004 - 2005

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2004_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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Literacy status (PLIT)

Data file: Egypt04-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 162668

Valid (weighted): 162490.033

Invalid: 44763

Invalid (weighted): 44538.996

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 121

End: 121

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2913

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
0	No	46894	46458	28.6%
1	Can read & write	115774	116032	71.4%
Sysmiss		44763	44539

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is literate (can read and write) or not

Universe

All individuals aged 10+ years

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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A person is considered literate if they can both read and write and not just one or the other. A semi-literate person (one who can read, but cannot write) is said to be illiterate.
In the case where the survey asks only whether a person can read but does not ask if they can write, and in case there no information in the questionnaire about the reading and writing ability literacy cannot be determined, these are coded as missing.
If there are no questions about the read and write ability but the educational attainment is elementary or upper the individual is considered literate

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category was recoded missing.

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