Labor Force Survey, LFS 2012

Egypt, 2012

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EGY_LFS_2012_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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May 31, 2016

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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2012-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 106960

Valid (weighted): 23958937.277

Invalid: 263330

Invalid (weighted): 58567869.894

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 105

End: 106

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2099

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	24670	5541109	23.1%
2	Public sector	3553	810359	3.4%
3	Private sector	77632	17358920	72.5%
4	Joint/Cooperative	257	58831	0.2%
5	Foreign sector	50	11863	0%
6	Other	0	0	0%
99	Not stated	798	177855	0.7%
Sysmiss		263330	58567870

Description

Definition

Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.

Universe

Employed individuals 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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.

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