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General Census for Population, Housing and Establishments 2006

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2006
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EGY_POP_CENSUS_2006_V1.0
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Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Sector of employment of the main job (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2006-CENSUS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 1986616
Invalid: 5250773
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 56
End: 57
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 491809
24.8%
2 Public sector 46507
2.3%
3 Private sector 1440460
72.5%
4 Joint/Cooperative 3981
0.2%
5 Foreign sector 0
0%
6 Others 3859
0.2%
99 Not stated 0
0%
Sysmiss 5250773
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.
Universe
Employed individuals 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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