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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2015

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2015
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Reference ID
EGY_HIECS_2015_HD_V3.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Labor force status in the current period (PCLFS)

Data file: Egypt15-IND-V3

Overview

Valid: 45347
Valid (weighted): 44695.218
Invalid: 6907
Invalid (weighted): 6483.901
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 153
End: 154
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1086

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Active 17333 16898
37.8%
2 Inactive 27633 27409
61.3%
99 Not stated 381 388
0.9%
Sysmiss 6907 6484
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
Current labour force status that distinguishes between the employed, the unemployed, and those not in the labour force.
Universe
All individuals aged 6+ years
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Variable is constructed for all persons administered this module in each questionnaire. For this reason the lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
All persons are considered active in the labour force if they presently have a job (formal or informal, i.e. are employed) or do not have a job but are actively seeking work (i.e. unemployed).

Those unemployed and do not search for a job are considered inactive, hence their previous employment information, if they were ever active, is recoded missing.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Students reported in the relation to labor force variable (Q501) are "working" students as identified in the original variable, hence they were recoded active in the relationship to labor force and classified by work status, occupation, economic activity, and sector of employment as well.
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