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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022
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EGY_HIECS_2021_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: Egypt21-IND-V3

Overview

Valid: 44111
Valid (weighted): 43858.933
Invalid: 6347
Invalid (weighted): 6296.72
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 68
End: 69
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1680

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Active 15501 15483
35.3%
2 Inactive 27990 27750
63.3%
99 Not stated 620 627
1.4%
Sysmiss 6347 6297
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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