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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2017/2018

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2017 - 2018
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EGY_HIECS_2017_HD_V3.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Labor force status in the current period (PCLFS)

Data file: Egypt17-IND-V3

Overview

Valid: 47128
Valid (weighted): 46480.612
Invalid: 5800
Invalid (weighted): 5555.087
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 155
End: 156
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1086

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Active 17009 16727
36%
2 Inactive 29941 29602
63.7%
99 Not stated 178 151
0.3%
Sysmiss 5800 5555
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
Current labour force status that distinguishes between the employed, the unemployed, and those not in the labour force.
Universe
All individuals aged 6+ years
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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Variable is constructed for all persons administered this module in each questionnaire. For this reason the lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
All persons are considered active in the labour force if they presently have a job (formal or informal, i.e. are employed) or do not have a job but are actively seeking work (i.e. unemployed).

Those unemployed and do not search for a job are considered inactive, hence their previous employment information, if they were ever active, is recoded missing.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Students reported in the relation to labor force variable (Q501) are "working" students as identified in the original variable, hence they were recoded active in the relationship to labor force and classified by work status, occupation, economic activity, and sector of employment as well.
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