Labor Force Survey, LFS 2003

Palestine, 2003

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Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2003_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Mar 13, 2016

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Palestine03-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 13124

Valid (weighted): 278693.665

Invalid: 103028

Invalid (weighted): 1998995.23

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 36666.666

Mean: 1596.293

Mean (weighted): 1649.066

Standard deviation: 1172.89

Standard deviation (weighted): 1263.054

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 125

End: 132

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 49999.9995117188

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2886

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers 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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The value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN
When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.

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