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proper income variable. <strong>The</strong>re is still room for flexibility. of course.<br />

permitting some a<strong>mb</strong>iguity in definitions, acknowledging the difficulties of<br />

gathering data on income in kind. and opting for the administratively easy<br />

tack. <strong>The</strong> point to be made is this: mismeasurement of income should be an<br />

invitation to improve the interview process.<br />

ILF Earner Characteristics<br />

II.8<br />

Earners in the HIECS are those household me<strong>mb</strong>ers which have one or<br />

more of six sources of income for which enumerators asked detailed questions<br />

(wages and salaries. agricultural. non-agricultural. finance, lands and real<br />

estate. and other). If the individual states that (s)he has this income source.<br />

(s)he is called an "earner." <strong>The</strong>re are 1.7 earners on average. 52.5% of<br />

households have one earner. 32.6% have two. 10.3% have three earners. <strong>The</strong><br />

previous HIECS had 1.53 earners per household. Females comprised 28.65% of<br />

the total of earners in the rural areas and 30.83% of the total of earners in<br />

the urban areas in the last quarter of <strong>1995</strong> and the first three quarters of<br />

<strong>1996</strong>.<br />

Sector and Sex of Earners<br />

SECTOR SEX<br />

Frequency:<br />

Percent :<br />

Row Pct :<br />

Col Pct : Female: Male<br />

---------+--------+--------+<br />

Rural 3917: 9757<br />

15.70: 39.12<br />

28.65: 71. 35<br />

I 53.00: 55.59<br />

---------+--------+--------+<br />

Urban : 3474: 7796<br />

: 13.93: 31.25<br />

: 30.83: 69.17<br />

: 47 . 00: 44. 41<br />

---------+--------+--------+<br />

Total 7391 17553<br />

29.63 70.37<br />

Total<br />

13674<br />

54.82<br />

11270<br />

45.18<br />

24944<br />

100.00<br />

When earners are classified by region and sex (Table U.5), male earners<br />

outnu<strong>mb</strong>er female earners by more than two to one in all regions; in the<br />

Frontier governorates the ratio is almost three to one. Governorates<br />

contribute an overly large percentage of earners where agriculture<br />

predominates.<br />

<strong>Income</strong> sources are more varied than earners. 9.5% of the sample have<br />

one income source. 35.3% have 2, 32.8% have 3, 15.0% have 4. 5.3% have 5. and<br />

the rest have more than 5 sources. Sources of income increase with<br />

household size, of course, and multiple sources are more common in rural<br />

areas.

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