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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013-2014

Yemen, 2013 - 2014
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YEM_LFS_2013_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, ILO Regional Office for Arab States, Central Statistical Organization
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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Yemen 2013-2014-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 16790
Invalid: 69060
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 95
End: 96
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 3511
20.9%
2 Public sector 329
2%
3 Private sector 12289
73.2%
4 Joint/Cooperative 108
0.6%
5 Foreign sector 13
0.1%
6 Other 40
0.2%
99 Not stated 500
3%
Sysmiss 69060
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
Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.
Universe
Employed individuals aged 15+
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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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