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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2018

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2018
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EGY_LFS_2018_HD_V3
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the third spouse (TOTWAGSP_3)

Data file: Egypt 2018-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 80804
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 257
End: 260
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
Sysmiss
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 indicates the total monthly wage the third spouse, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
Universe
Waged Workers Spouses 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.

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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