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 (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2018-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 42717

Valid (weighted): 13564823.399

Invalid: 280962

Invalid (weighted): 83377658.344

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 50000

Mean: 2257.324

Mean (weighted): 2226.59

Standard deviation: 1075.82

Standard deviation (weighted): 1062.499

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 160

End: 168

Width: 9

Range: 8.33333333333333 - 225000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1961

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)

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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 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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