Labor Force Survey, LFS 2018

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2018

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EGY_LFS_2018_HD_V3

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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 2018-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 85053

Valid (weighted): 26190189.528

Invalid: 238626

Invalid (weighted): 70752292.215

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 124

End: 125

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1961

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	18465	5309812	20.3%
2	Public sector	2431	745783	2.8%
3	Private sector	63852	20039943	76.5%
4	Joint/Cooperative	33	9570	0%
5	Foreign sector	22	7364	0%
6	Other	69	20517	0.1%
99	Not stated	181	57200	0.2%
Sysmiss		238626	70752292

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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