Labor Force Survey, LFS 2008

Egypt, 2008

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2008_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics

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Apr 04, 2019

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2008-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 59128

Valid (weighted): 13558732.448

Invalid: 271722

Invalid (weighted): 61525063.192

Minimum: 41.667

Maximum: 15600

Mean: 661.771

Mean (weighted): 664.545

Standard deviation: 441.288

Standard deviation (weighted): 443.208

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 204

End: 211

Width: 8

Range: 41.6666666666667 - 15600

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1770

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers 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
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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.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The total wages were then generated by summating all wage variables by type of wage, after converting all original variables to monthly amounts.

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