Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_HD_V2.0

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Feb 19, 2014

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Total food expenditures (TOTFOOD)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 23428

Valid (weighted): 23430.118

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Minimum: 276

Maximum: 55674

Mean: 7749.574

Mean (weighted): 7698.867

Standard deviation: 3938.227

Standard deviation (weighted): 3899.449

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 913

End: 920

Width: 8

Range: 276 - 55674

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

Description

Definition

Total food expenditures

Universe

All households

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Expenditure aggregates.pdf indicates items aggregated under each expenditure type

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data Dictionary.pdf/Expenditure Aggregates.pdf)

Others

Notes

GENERAL NOTES
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In case where the own produced food items are also included in code 01 we need to abstract from OWNP
=FOODEXP+CATSER+SCHRST

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Expenditure aggregates are based on the expenditure data already aggregated and provided (no detailed amounts for expenditure items are available).

Expenditure data was annualized based on the periods provided by CAPMAS for each data file indicating expenditure on one of the items.

Items aggregated under each expenditure type are identified in "Expenditure Aggregates" file.

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