Egypt, Arab Rep. - Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey 2004-2005

Start	End	Cycle
2004-07	2005-06	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
Field Work
1- The field staff were selected from among the experienced persons.
2- Intensive training program for supervisors was conducted at CAPMAS in Cairo and locally in governorates for interviewers and field editors.
3- Supervision program was implemented monthly in all governorates to check the field work.
4- Data were collected by using personal interview method for household in dwelling and it had been obtained from the head of household or wife or any eligible person in case of their absence.
5- Duties and responsibilities of all levels of field staff (interviewer, editor and supervisor) were defined to insure the accuracy and timing. These are outlined next

Interviewers - Every one of them was responsible for data collection of ten households monthly with ten visits.

Three different questionnaires have been designed as following:
1- Expenditure and consumption questionnaire
2- Diary questionnaire for expenditure and consumption
3- Income questionnaire.

In designing the questionnaires of expenditure, consumption and income, we were taking into our consideration the following:
- Using the recent concepts and definitions of International Labor Organization approved in the International Convention of Labor Statisticians held in Geneva ,2003.
- Using the recent Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose(COICOP).
- Using more than one approach of expenditure measurement to serve many purposes of the survey

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics	CAPMAS	Ministry of Planning, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences

They we responsible for financial and technical aspects of all the survey stages especially:
(1) Selecting interviewers (females) and editors( males) and send the list of their names to administration of survey.
(2) Attending the central training in Cairo.
(3) Training the interviewers on field work.