Labor Force Survey, LFS 2008

Egypt, 2008

Get Microdata

Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2008_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics

Collections

Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Apr 04, 2019

Last modified

Apr 04, 2019

Page views

243511

Downloads

6605

Level of schooling presently attending (ENROL)

Data file: Egypt 2008-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 92902

Valid (weighted): 21034265.112

Invalid: 237948

Invalid (weighted): 54049530.528

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 102

End: 103

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1770

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Primary	46963	10572786	50.3%
2	Lower secondary	20143	4546710	21.6%
3	Higher secondary- academic	8437	1941459	9.2%
4	Higher secondary- technical/vocational	6501	1446734	6.9%
5	Post secondary- technical	1255	296552	1.4%
6	University	9410	2185109	10.4%
7	Postgraduate	83	19317	0.1%
8	Other	1	234	0%
99	Not stated	109	25364	0.1%
Sysmiss		237948	54049531

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

This variable ideally provides information on the level of education in which the individual is enrolled.

Universe

Currently enrolled individuals aged 6+

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
----------------------
The universe of this variable covers the individuals attending school at the time of the survey (ATTSCH=1), and will be coded missing for others.
If the type of secondary school is not specified, it is assumed to be academic (Code 3).
For the surveys in which no distinction is provided between university and post university, they are considered to be university.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
----------------------------------
The code "1" in the original variable indicating those below the question age category were recoded missing.

Back to Catalog