Labor Force Survey, LFS 2007

Palestine, 2007

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Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2007_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Dec 27, 2015

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the head (TOTWAGHD)

Data file: Palestine07-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 8865

Valid (weighted): 218793.79

Invalid: 16664

Invalid (weighted): 419321.779

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 23653.8

Mean: 1974.588

Mean (weighted): 2037.998

Standard deviation: 1257.953

Standard deviation (weighted): 1370.518

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 213

End: 220

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 23653.7999267578

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2503

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the head, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

Universe

Waged Workers Heads aged 10+

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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The value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN
When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.

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