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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2020

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2020
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EGY_LFS_2020_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Sector of employment of the head [Standardized version] (sectorhd)

Data file: Egypt 2020-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 46611
Invalid: 23502
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 442
End: 446
Width: 5
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 9518
20.4%
2 Public sector 1441
3.1%
3 Private sector 35436
76%
4 Joint/Cooperative 28
0.1%
5 Foreign sector 0
0%
6 Other 145
0.3%
99 Not stated 43
0.1%
Sysmiss 23502
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
Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job of the head.
Universe
Employed Heads 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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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