Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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In case where the own produced food items are also included in code 01 we need to abstract from OWNP
=FOODEXP+CATSER+SCHRST
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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• Products don’t need to be restructured as they already are in an appropriate way that each product represents a variable, also they don’t need to be recoded as there are no missing values.
• All expenditure items were summated from the products data file (indicating monthly amounts in NIS).
• All expenditure were annualized (multiplied by 12) even expenditure on durables, as indicated in the coding book that all amounts provided are monthly expenses. To validate the above a check on average car price was performed and showed that expenses indicated are probably monthly since the maximum car price indicated is NIS7000~=USD1700.
• The labels of the following 6 products-in original survey data- (3635 ,5025 ,5026, 5027,5028,5029) are not identified neither in the data file nor the coding sheet or later data sets (no questionnaire available), and they were not available in previous data sets, hence they could not be labeled in the data file but they were categorized among expenditure aggregates as per their codes.
• Expenditure items aggregated under each expenses type are identified in "expenditure aggregates" sheet.
