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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2025

Palestine, 2025 - 2026
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PAL_LFS_2025_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 first spouse [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCCSP_1_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine25-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 1814
Invalid: 15671
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 12
0.7%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 3
0.2%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 5
0.3%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 31
1.7%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 24
1.3%
13 Production and specialized services managers 55
3%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 5
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 24
1.3%
22 Health professionals 136
7.5%
23 Teaching professionals 665
36.7%
24 Business and administration professionals 41
2.3%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 6
0.3%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 50
2.8%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 2
0.1%
32 Health associate professionals 10
0.6%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 94
5.2%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 27
1.5%
35 Information and communications technicians 2
0.1%
41 General and keyboard clerks 26
1.4%
42 Customer services clerks 9
0.5%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 0
0%
44 Other clerical support workers 1
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 80
4.4%
52 Sales workers 100
5.5%
53 Personal care workers 31
1.7%
54 Protective services workers 0
0%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 18
1%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 0
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 82
4.5%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 0
0%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 0
0%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 4
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 0
0%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 85
4.7%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 29
1.6%
82 Assemblers 0
0%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 4
0.2%
91 Cleaners and helpers 80
4.4%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 33
1.8%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 16
0.9%
94 Food preparation assistants 11
0.6%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 0
0%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 12
0.7%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 1
0.1%
Sysmiss 15671
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 first spouse, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed Spouses 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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