Population, Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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Reference ID

EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Person weight (PERWT)

Data file: EGY1996_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 34

End: 41

Width: 8

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

PERWT indicates the number of persons in the actual population represented by the person in the sample.

For the samples that are truly weighted (see the comparability discussion), PERWT must be used to yield accurate statistics for the population.

NOTE: PERWT has 2 implied decimal places. That is, the last two digits of the eight-digit variable are decimal digits, but there is no actual decimal in the data.

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

PERWT is an 8-digit numeric variable with 2 implied decimal places. See the variable description.

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