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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2006

Egypt, 2006
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Reference ID
EGY_LFS_2006_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics
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May 12, 2019
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  • Egypt 2006-LFS
    HH-V1
  • Egypt 2006-LFS
    IND-V1

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

Data file: Egypt 2006-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 23883
Valid (weighted): 4905860.837
Invalid: 311566
Invalid (weighted): 65898903.374
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 142
End: 144
Width: 3
Range: 10 - 999
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2522

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
10 Legislators, senior officials and managers 507 106869
2.2%
20 Professionals 1268 263887
5.4%
30 Technicians and associate professionals 607 126089
2.6%
40 Clerks 337 70046
1.4%
50 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 1405 290703
5.9%
60 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 12625 2548764
52%
70 Craft and related trades workers 4299 894307
18.2%
80 Plant and machine operators, and assemblers 995 209819
4.3%
90 Elementary occupations 396 83528
1.7%
100 Armed forces 0 0
0%
998 Other/unspecified 196 44042
0.9%
999 Not stated 1248 267807
5.5%
Sysmiss 311566 65898903
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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