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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2019

Palestine, 2019 - 2020
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PAL_LFS_2019_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Occupation classification of the main job of the head [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCCHD_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine19-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 14675
Invalid: 9812
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 121
End: 124
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 536
3.7%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 435
3%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 205
1.4%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 156
1.1%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 98
0.7%
13 Production and specialized services managers 275
1.9%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 40
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 170
1.2%
22 Health professionals 248
1.7%
23 Teaching professionals 756
5.2%
24 Business and administration professionals 363
2.5%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 35
0.2%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 216
1.5%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 133
0.9%
32 Health associate professionals 72
0.5%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 287
2%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 87
0.6%
35 Information and communications technicians 23
0.2%
41 General and keyboard clerks 76
0.5%
42 Customer services clerks 67
0.5%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 26
0.2%
44 Other clerical support workers 10
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 273
1.9%
52 Sales workers 1729
11.8%
53 Personal care workers 18
0.1%
54 Protective services workers 607
4.1%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 479
3.3%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 1
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 59
0.4%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 1850
12.6%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 514
3.5%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 21
0.1%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 285
1.9%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 536
3.7%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 361
2.5%
82 Assemblers 10
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1250
8.5%
91 Cleaners and helpers 272
1.9%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 507
3.5%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 1050
7.2%
94 Food preparation assistants 147
1%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 36
0.2%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 351
2.4%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 5
0%
Sysmiss 9812
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
Occupation classification of the main job of the head, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed 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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid because of waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D=132), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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