Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2008/2009

Egypt, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2008_HD_V2.0

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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Feb 19, 2014

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Labor force status in the current period (PCLFS)

Data file: Egypt08-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 94314

Valid (weighted): 94407.528

Invalid: 15449

Invalid (weighted): 15467.464

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 131

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2920

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Active	41467	41525	44%
2	Inactive	52847	52882	56%
99	Not stated	0	0	0%
Sysmiss		15449	15467

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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Housewives and students reported in the employment status variable (de08) are "working" housewives/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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