Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Alcoholic and tobacco expenditures are included here
=TOTEXP-(FOODEXP+TDUR+THOUS)
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only one consumption type (code 2) is provided for food/non-food items, hence no identification for own produced or in kind expenses is possible, and all expenses were assumed to be for purchased items.
Expenses items for which the codes are not labeled were allocated under expenditure aggregates based on their coding group.
Since the period over which the expenditure data are collected is not identified in the data file, a check on average expenses on food, non food and total expenditure was done and compared to the figures provided by DOS. It was found that amounts provided are already annualized.
Furthermore, a comparison between the monthly rent value provided in the household data file with that provided in the non-food expenditure data file, indicated that the amounts provided are annualized.
Items aggregated under each expenditure type are identified in "Expenditure Aggregates" file.
