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

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_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 of the first spouse (LITSP_1)

Data file: Egypt08-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 18640

Valid (weighted): 18633.559

Invalid: 4788

Invalid (weighted): 4796.559

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 98

End: 98

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2691

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
0	No	8593	8672	46.5%
1	Can read & write	10047	9962	53.5%
Sysmiss		4788	4797

Description

Definition

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

Universe

All spouses 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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