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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 [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCC_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine25-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 16999
Invalid: 46447
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 95
End: 98
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 540
3.2%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 201
1.2%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 68
0.4%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 172
1%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 148
0.9%
13 Production and specialized services managers 277
1.6%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 51
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 186
1.1%
22 Health professionals 495
2.9%
23 Teaching professionals 1308
7.7%
24 Business and administration professionals 343
2%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 85
0.5%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 286
1.7%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 94
0.6%
32 Health associate professionals 87
0.5%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 371
2.2%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 105
0.6%
35 Information and communications technicians 22
0.1%
41 General and keyboard clerks 125
0.7%
42 Customer services clerks 111
0.7%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 31
0.2%
44 Other clerical support workers 12
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 628
3.7%
52 Sales workers 2084
12.3%
53 Personal care workers 60
0.4%
54 Protective services workers 174
1%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 585
3.4%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 1
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 271
1.6%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 1337
7.9%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 705
4.1%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 40
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 403
2.4%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 826
4.9%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 506
3%
82 Assemblers 14
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1223
7.2%
91 Cleaners and helpers 494
2.9%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 600
3.5%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 1342
7.9%
94 Food preparation assistants 202
1.2%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 25
0.1%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 352
2.1%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 9
0.1%
Sysmiss 46447
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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