Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013

Egypt, 2013

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2013_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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May 31, 2016

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2013-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 44701

Invalid: 306126

Minimum: 2

Maximum: 40000

Mean: 1383.359

Standard deviation: 985.42

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 137

End: 144

Width: 8

Range: 2 - 40000

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers 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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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

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The wages are provided either weekly, monthly or yearly in pounds.
The weekly wages were multiplied by 4 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable indicating monthly wages

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