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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Unemployment duration in months (UNEMPDUR)

Data file: Egypt 2008-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 8635

Valid (weighted): 1987806.356

Invalid: 322215

Invalid (weighted): 73095989.284

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 360

Mean: 35.695

Mean (weighted): 35.27

Standard deviation: 36.362

Standard deviation (weighted): 35.955

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 231

End: 233

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 360

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1770

Description

Definition

The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual had stayed without work since graduation or since he/she left the last held 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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original variable indicating Unemployment duration in months (unemp_prd) is not reported for those who are unemployed (not seeking a job) (MAS_D=230). Thus, the generated variable for those cases is missing.

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