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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2007

Egypt, 2007
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EGY_LFS_2007_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics
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  • Egypt 2007-LFS
    HH-V1
  • Egypt 2007-LFS
    IND-V1

Occupation classification of the previous/last held job [Standardized version] (OCCPRV)

Data file: Egypt 2007-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 21656
Valid (weighted): 4669934.895
Invalid: 309349
Invalid (weighted): 68753132.107
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 217
End: 219
Width: 3
Range: 10 - 999
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2258

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
10 Legislators, senior officials and managers 387 85621
1.8%
20 Professionals 1115 245796
5.3%
30 Technicians and associate professionals 535 116338
2.5%
40 Clerks 241 52628
1.1%
50 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 1180 257293
5.5%
60 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 12164 2584909
55.4%
70 Craft and related trades workers 3678 800878
17.1%
80 Plant and machine operators, and assemblers 608 134486
2.9%
90 Elementary occupations 329 73032
1.6%
100 Armed forces 0 0
0%
998 Other/unspecified 47 10454
0.2%
999 Not stated 1372 308501
6.6%
Sysmiss 309349 68753132
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
Standardized occupation classification of the previous/last held job.
Universe
Ever-employed and reported a previous job INDs aged 6+
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

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Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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In many datasets, national classifications are used to code the detailed data collected. In such cases, if the aggregated data is provided by the statistical office, no attempt to correct the original variable is done.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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As stated in the methodology part of the report provided with the dataset from CAPMAS, the occupation variable's codes were recoded based on the occupational classification index issued in January 1996.
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