Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2009

Palestine, 2009 - 2010

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Reference ID

PAL_PECS_2009_HD_V2.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Feb 19, 2014

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Labor force status in the current period (PCLFS)

Data file: Palestine09-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 18702

Valid (weighted): 18743.564

Invalid: 4476

Invalid (weighted): 4425.478

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 121

End: 122

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2386

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Active	6058	6017	32.1%
2	Inactive	12625	12709	67.8%
99	Not stated	19	17	0.1%
Sysmiss		4476	4425

Description

Definition

Current labour force status that distinguishes between the employed, the unemployed, and those not in the labour force.

Universe

All individuals aged 7+ years

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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Variable is constructed for all persons administered this module in each questionnaire. For this reason the lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
All persons are considered active in the labour force if they presently have a job (formal or informal, i.e. are employed) or do not have a job but are actively seeking work (i.e. unemployed).

Those unemployed and do not search for a job are considered inactive, hence their previous employment information, if they were ever active, is recoded missing.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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