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Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2010/2011

Egypt, 2010 - 2011
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Reference ID
EGY_HIECS_2010_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: Egypt10-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 29318
Valid (weighted): 29355.725
Invalid: 4751
Invalid (weighted): 4773.273
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 130
End: 131
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V3155

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Active 12750 12797
43.6%
2 Inactive 16568 16559
56.4%
99 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 4751 4773
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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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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