Guatemala – Revision of Two Datasets in the LIS Database
As announced last June at the moment of the release of the newer datasets for Guatemala, LIS has carried out a revision of the previous dataset based on the same survey (the National Survey of Living Conditions, ENCOVI, carried out by National Institute for Statistics, INE), GT06 (Wave VII), where non-monetary incomes and consumption variables were considerably affected.
At the same time, an important revision of the GT14 dataset was also carried out in order to systematically include all non-monetary items (consumption from own production, goods and services taken from own business, as well as in-kind gifts and donations received) that had been previously left out from both income and consumption variables; the impact on the distribution of overall DHI is substantial.
It should be noted that, whereas GT06 and GT14 now consistently include all sources of non-monetary income, GT11 only includes in-kind benefits from the employer; this difference (due to a different dissemination policy from the side of the data provider) creates a serious inconsistency in the time series and users should be very cautious when comparing over time results based on total household disposable income, DHI (such as the Key Figures).