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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2008

Egypt, 2008
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EGY_LFS_2008_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics
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Immigration status of the head (IMMIGRHD)

Data file: Egypt 2008-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 75327
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 79
End: 79
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Immigrant (from abroad) 108
0.1%
2 Migrant (from another region inside the country) 5953
7.9%
3 No 69266
92%
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
This variable ideally indicates whether the head is born in the country or has an immigrant background, and, if possible, how recently he/she arrived. Other migration status information may be included if available.
Universe
All Heads
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 content of this variable is not uniform.
Through other migration statuses we attempt to capture those who migrate from one region to another inside the country (if the place of birth is different from the place of residence inside the country).


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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