Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017

Palestine, 2017

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PAL_LFS_2017_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Mar 03, 2021

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

Data file: Palestine17-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 8844

Invalid: 14276

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 17167.785

Mean: 2824.599

Standard deviation: 1783.084

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 218

End: 228

Width: 11

Range: 0 - 99980001

Format: Numeric

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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