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Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1995
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EGY_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Council [Egypt] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Earnings for work (C_WKINCOME)

Data file: EGY1995-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 464
End: 471
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1014. Now much do you usually earn for this work?

RECORD AMOUNT: _______

PROBE: Is this by the day, by the month or by the year?

RECORD UNIT OF TIME: __________

PER YEAR 1 __________
PER MONTH 2 ____________
PER WEEK 3 __________
PER DAY 4 ___________
PER HOUR 5 ______
OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ 999996
Categories
Value Category
99999997 Don't know
99999998 Missing
99999999 NIU (not in universe)
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
For respondents who reported earning cash for their work, WKINCOME (V736) is an 8-digit numeric variable that reports the usual amount the respondent earns in cash.

The first digit gives the units in which the amount was specified, while the remaining 7 digits give the total amount. The first digit, or units digit, is coded as follows:


1 indicates earnings per hour
2 indicates earnings per day
3 indicates earnings per week
4 indicates earnings per month
5 indicates earnings per year


For example, 30000400 would indicate that the respondent received 400 per week. The currency and units of currency used are both country-specific.

The values reported in WKINCOME are used to create two other variables with standard time units:

WKINCOMEDAY

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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