Labor Force Survey, LFS 2016

Egypt, 2016

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2016_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Jan 13, 2018

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the head (TOTWAGHD)

Data file: Egypt 2016-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 27571

Invalid: 56378

Minimum: 2

Maximum: 150000

Mean: 2345.505

Standard deviation: 4070.284

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 206

End: 214

Width: 9

Range: 2 - 150000

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the head, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

Universe

Waged Workers Heads 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 value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The wages are provided either daily, weekly, monthly or yearly in pounds.
The daily wages were multiplied by 30, the weekly wages were multiplied by 4 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable indicating monthly wages.

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