Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2006

JOR_2006_HEIS_HD_V2.0 Household Expenditure and Income Survey, HEIS 2006 Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies] The Department of Statistics in Jordan, since established, conducted a series of Expenditure and Income Surveys during the years 1966, 1980, 1986/1987, 1992, 1997, 2002/2003 and 2006/2007. <p style="border:solid thin black;"> 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> The 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. Sample survey data [ssd] 1- Household/family. 2- Individual/person. V1.0: A cleaned and a harmonized version of the survey dataset, produced by the Economic Research Forum for dissemination. V2.0: A cleaned and a harmonized version of the survey dataset, including all variables in V1.0 in addition to a number of new/detailed-composite coded version of the variables considered essential on the household as well as the individual level, produced by the Economic Research Forum for dissemination. 2014-01 All documentation available for the original survey provided by the Statistical Agency, and for the harmonized datasets produced by the Economic Research Forum, has been published, along with a copy of all international classifications of expenditures, occupations and economic activities used during the harmonization process. However, as far as the datasets are concerned, the Economic Research Forum produces and releases only the harmonized versions in both SPSS and STATA formats. 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. Individual: 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. The survey sample is covering the urban and rural regions in the following governorates: Amman, Al-Balqa, Az Zarqa, Madaba, Irbid, Al-Mafraq, Jerash, Ajloun, Al-Karak, Al-Tafilah, Maan, and Al-Aqaba The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households. <p style="border:solid thin black;"> 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> List of questionnaires: 1- General Questionnaire 2- Food Questionnaire 3- Non-Food Questionnaire Raw Data ========== Harmonized Data =============== - The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) is used to clean and harmonize the datasets. - The harmonization process starts with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency. - Cleaned data files are then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization. - A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/compute /recode/rename/format/label harmonized variables. - A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data. - Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and converted to STATA format. Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions. The users should cite the Economic Research Forum and the Department of Statistics of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as follows: OAMDI, 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 2006 - Department of Statistics (DOS), The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Egypt: Economic Research Forum (ERF). 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. (c) 2014, Economic Research Forum | (c) 2006, Department of Statistics, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan JOR_2006_HEIS_HD_V2.0 2014-01 Version 2.0