The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

• Individuals working inside a firm has to identify in detail the main activity'of the
fll111 regardless the nature of his job or profession, for example the physician
working in a spinning and weaving factory his economic activity is "spinning and
weaving" .
• Individuals working outside firms, his economic activity is derived from the work
he is carrying out, for example the wandering vegetables seller his economic
activity is "retail selling of vegetables", and the farmer and the agricultural
laborer their economic activity is "agriculture".
11. Consumption and expenses of goods and services
Consumption means the quantity and value of actual household consumption during the
survey period either goods are homemade (from its farm or factory) or a non-householdproduction
(either it is purchased or given as a gift, grant and in-kind benefit).
Quantities consumed exclude goods exchanged against other commodities, gifts, grants
or compensations, such as in-kind wages to agricultural laborers, given by the household.
Also, quantities used for production purposes such as seeds or agricultural food sold by
the household to third parties are not included.
Service expenses means payments paid, in cash or in-kind, by the household on services
provided during the survey period. This does not include the value of free services
rendered to the household during the survey period.
12. Transfer payments
The value of expenses supported by the household for non-living household members
either (relatives or not) such as bridal money, trousseau, wedding present, donations,
charity, alms and alimony, cash or in-kind transfers from the household to third parties
either inside or outside Egypt.
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