THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 25% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN <\/p> \n\nThe raw survey data provided by the Statistical Agency were cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major project that started in 2009. During which extensive efforts have been exerted to acquire, clean, harmonize, preserve and disseminate micro data of existing household surveys in several Arab countries.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2002-03","end":"2003-03","cycle":"-"}],"nation":[{"name":"Jordan","abbreviation":"JOR"}],"geog_coverage":"The survey sample is covering the urban and rural regions in the following governorates:\nAmman, Al-Balqa, Az Zarqa, Madaba, Irbid, Al-Mafraq, Jerash, Ajloun, Al-Karak, Al-Tafilah, Maan, and Al-Aqaba.","analysis_unit":"1- Household\/family.\n2- Individual\/person.","universe":"The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Household: Includes geographic, social, and economic characteristics of households, namely, household composition, dwelling characteristics, ownership of assets indicators, heads' and spouses' characteristics, annual household expenditure and income.\n\nIndividual: Includes demographic, migration, education, labor and health characteristics, as well as annual income for household members identified as earners. Moreover, fathers' and mothers' characteristics are generated for household members if possible."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Department of Statistics","abbreviation":"DOS","affiliation":"The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan"}],"sampling_procedure":"
THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 25% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN <\/p>","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"List of questionnaires:\n\n1- General Questionnaire\n2- Food Questionnaire\n3- Non-Food Questionnaire","cleaning_operations":"Raw Data\n=======\n\n\n\nHarmonized Data\n===========\n- The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.\n- The harmonization process starts with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency.\n- Cleaned data files are then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.\n- A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate\/compute \/recode\/rename\/format\/label harmonized variables.\n- A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data.\n- Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and converted to STATA format."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"To access the micro data, researchers are required to register on the ERF website and comply with the data access agreement. \n\nThe data will be used only for scholarly research, or educational purposes. Users are prohibited from using data acquired from the Economic Research Forum in the pursuit of any commercial or private ventures.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Economic Research Forum","affiliation":"(ERF)","email":"erfdataportal@erf.org.eg ","uri":"www.erf.org.eg"}],"cit_req":"The users should cite the Economic Research Forum and the Department of Statistics of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as follows:\n\nOAMDI, 2014. Harmonized Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HHIES), http:\/\/www.erf.org.eg\/cms.php?id=erfdataportal. Version 2.0 of Licensed Data Files; HEIS 2002 - Department of Statistics (DOS), The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Egypt: Economic Research Forum (ERF).","conditions":"Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions.","disclaimer":"The Economic Research Forum and the Department of Statistics in The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have granted the researcher access to relevant data following exhaustive efforts to protect the confidentiality of individual data. The researcher is solely responsible for any analysis or conclusions drawn from available data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}