Labor Force Survey, LFS 2016

Palestine, 2016

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PAL_LFS_2016_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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

Data file: Palestine16-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 14130

Valid (weighted): 14222.171

Invalid: 9754

Invalid (weighted): 9661.829

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 99980001

Mean: 32658103.779

Mean (weighted): 32921305.887

Standard deviation: 46887082.841

Standard deviation (weighted): 46983222.072

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 217

End: 227

Width: 11

Range: 0 - 99980001

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V3923

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 10+

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
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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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.

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