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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2020

Palestine, 2020 - 2021
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PAL_LFS_2020_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Occupation classification of the main job of the head [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCCHD_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine20-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 13576
Invalid: 10339
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 118
End: 121
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 527
3.9%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 360
2.7%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 174
1.3%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 178
1.3%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 102
0.8%
13 Production and specialized services managers 260
1.9%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 47
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 134
1%
22 Health professionals 272
2%
23 Teaching professionals 731
5.4%
24 Business and administration professionals 344
2.5%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 30
0.2%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 251
1.8%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 107
0.8%
32 Health associate professionals 84
0.6%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 249
1.8%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 72
0.5%
35 Information and communications technicians 19
0.1%
41 General and keyboard clerks 61
0.4%
42 Customer services clerks 52
0.4%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 20
0.1%
44 Other clerical support workers 7
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 226
1.7%
52 Sales workers 1518
11.2%
53 Personal care workers 10
0.1%
54 Protective services workers 587
4.3%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 407
3%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 4
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 20
0.1%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 1627
12%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 484
3.6%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 26
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 262
1.9%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 549
4%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 355
2.6%
82 Assemblers 6
0%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1174
8.6%
91 Cleaners and helpers 270
2%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 480
3.5%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 1026
7.6%
94 Food preparation assistants 119
0.9%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 31
0.2%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 309
2.3%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 5
0%
Sysmiss 10339
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
Occupation classification of the main job of the head, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed Heads aged 10+
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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid because of waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D=132), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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