Labor Force Survey, LFS 2014

Egypt, 2014

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EGY_LFS_2014_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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

Data file: Egypt 2014-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 99378

Valid (weighted): 24500796.22

Invalid: 253962

Invalid (weighted): 62296634.719

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 105

End: 106

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2258

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	21661	5325999	21.7%
2	Public sector	3637	922288	3.8%
3	Private sector	73489	18107773	73.9%
4	Joint/Cooperative	94	23476	0.1%
5	Foreign sector	41	10358	0%
6	Other	194	46781	0.2%
99	Not stated	262	64120	0.3%
Sysmiss		253962	62296635

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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