Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2008

Jordan, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

JOR_2008_HEIS_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Feb 19, 2014

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Relationship to head [Standardized version] (PREL)

Data file: Jordan08-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 15442

Valid (weighted): 5797454.962

Invalid: 0

Invalid (weighted): 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 37

End: 37

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2408

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Head of household	2746	1038494	17.9%
2	Spouse	2389	908533	15.7%
3	Son/daughter	9565	3561960	61.4%
4	Father/Mother (parents)	138	53643	0.9%
5	Brother/sister	120	44387	0.8%
6	Grandchildren	236	91927	1.6%
7	Other relatives	157	61182	1.1%
8	Other non-relatives	91	37329	0.6%

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

Relationship to the head of household, where the value '1' always stands for the head of the household him/herself.
The variable "Other relatives " includes nephew and niece, grandparents, sons and daughters in law, etc.....

Universe

All individuals

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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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