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Employment and Unemployment Survey, EUS 2016

Jordan, 2016
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JOR_EUS_2016_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics
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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Oct 22, 2017
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Job search duration in months (SRCHDUR)

Data file: Jordan16-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 7928
Valid (weighted): 7572.961
Invalid: 206670
Invalid (weighted): 207025.039
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 66
Mean: 14.747
Mean (weighted): 13.759
Standard deviation: 13.069
Standard deviation (weighted): 12.479
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 127
End: 128
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 66
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V88

Description

Definition
The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual has been searching for a job.
Universe
Unemployed 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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The period of search reported should be the last continuous period of active search without significant interruption (significant may imply active search efforts for a continuous period of at least four weeks).


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by summing two variables Q231M (job search duration in months) and Q231Y (job search duration in years), after multiplying the latter by 12 to convert the durations provided years to months.
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