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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2024

Palestine, 2024 - 2025
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PAL_LFS_2024_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Occupation classification of the main job [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCC_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine24-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 15656
Invalid: 44586
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 96
End: 99
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 547
3.5%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 184
1.2%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 82
0.5%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 181
1.2%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 130
0.8%
13 Production and specialized services managers 257
1.6%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 48
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 208
1.3%
22 Health professionals 425
2.7%
23 Teaching professionals 1297
8.3%
24 Business and administration professionals 314
2%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 73
0.5%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 219
1.4%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 117
0.7%
32 Health associate professionals 74
0.5%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 347
2.2%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 87
0.6%
35 Information and communications technicians 23
0.1%
41 General and keyboard clerks 127
0.8%
42 Customer services clerks 86
0.5%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 18
0.1%
44 Other clerical support workers 14
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 543
3.5%
52 Sales workers 2040
13%
53 Personal care workers 52
0.3%
54 Protective services workers 185
1.2%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 524
3.3%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 1
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 265
1.7%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 1087
6.9%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 677
4.3%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 46
0.3%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 341
2.2%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 732
4.7%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 455
2.9%
82 Assemblers 17
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1119
7.1%
91 Cleaners and helpers 407
2.6%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 533
3.4%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 1185
7.6%
94 Food preparation assistants 181
1.2%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 27
0.2%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 370
2.4%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 11
0.1%
Sysmiss 44586
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, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed individuals 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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