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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013

Egypt, 2013
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EGY_LFS_2013_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2013-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 100029
Invalid: 250798
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 105
End: 106
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 21996
22%
2 Public sector 3994
4%
3 Private sector 73292
73.3%
4 Joint/Cooperative 212
0.2%
5 Foreign sector 38
0%
6 Other 64
0.1%
99 Not stated 433
0.4%
Sysmiss 250798
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
Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.
Universe
Employed individuals aged 6+
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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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