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Income Metadata from Ilocos, Philippines
Description
Income metadata from surveys conducted by the Philippines' National Statistics Office.
Usage
data(Ilocos)Format
A data frame with 632 observations of 8 variables.
- income
total income of household,
- sex
sex of household head (
"male"or"female"),- family.size
family size (sometimes averaged over two semesters),
- urbanity
factor with levels
"rural"and"urban",- province
factor indicating the particular province,
- AP.income
total household income during the APIS,
- AP.family.size
family size during APIS,
- AP.weight
APIS survey weight for each household.
Details
The data contains household income and metadata in one of the sixteen regions of the Philippines called Ilocos. The data comes from two of the NSO's surveys: the 1997 Family and Income and Expenditure Survey and the 1998 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS).
Since the APIS only has a six month reference period, the original data were rescaled using an adjustment factor from the quarterly GDP figures that can be obtained from the major sectors.
Source
National Statistics Office, Philippines: http://www.census.gov.ph/, where also the whole data set may be obtained.