HEIS Stata Package

Aug 30, 2022

v. 1

`HEIS` : Iranian Household Expenditure & Income Survey

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Description

HEIS is a Stata package for downloading and cleaning the Iranian household expenditure and income survey. Moreover, This package saves the tables of the dataset in dta format. For now, the dataset of 1394 is not available yet, but 1381-1400 are available.

Installation

To install the package first you need to install “github” package:

net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")

Next, to download and install the “HEIS” package:

github install Iran-Indicators/HEIS

Quick Start

If you have the dataset; set the directory of your Stata on the folder contains you dataset.

cd "D:\data"

If not, specify the directory you want to download a dataset and set the data option “true”.

HEIS year, data("true")

For some years like 1380-1388, the weight of the observations are not included in the dataset. To solve the problem, you can use option weight and set it “true”.

HEIS year, data("true") weight("true")

In case you just need the weights:

HEIS year, weight("true")

For now, the dataset of 1394 is not available yet, but 1381-1400 are available.

License

Academic Free License v3.0

Author

Ali Bahrami Sani, Morteza Mohandes Mojarrad
Graduate student of economics at TeIAS, Graduate student of economics at TeIAS
Ali.Bahrami.Sani@gmail.com, mortza.mohandes@gmail.com

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