This page documents the principles used as a basis for categorization and any decisions made about coding products and services that are not straightforward.
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Purpose of Product Description: The product description should enable practitioners to understand the impact of shocks on livelihoods. This requires descriptions that are specific enough to separate out different things if a shock affects them differently.
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Migration Coding: Use an HEA code for migration that crosses all labor categories rather than being a separate category, expressing that it could be any type of work.
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Domestic Services Coding: Due to the confusing language in the CPC 2.1, it was decided to make "domestic services" an HEA code (98HA) to aggregate various individual domestic services.
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Money Lending/Credit Coding: For financial transactions like money lending and credit, it was decided to use separate HEA codes (HA, HB, HC) to differentiate between money lending as a livelihood activity, credit received (cash management), and loan repayment as an expenditure.
Generally, products and services are handled in LEX the same way they are handled in the FDW. The exception is that new products that the two-character alpha code appended to products that are specific to HEA work will always being with an H.