Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013

Egypt, 2013

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2013_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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May 31, 2016

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Reason for few weekly working hours is unavailability of additional work (FHRSWK_R_04)

Data file: Egypt 2013-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 7961

Invalid: 342866

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 130

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	6298	79.1%
1	Yes	1663	20.9%
Sysmiss		342866

Description

Definition

This set of variables should provide the reason(s) for which an individual reported weekly working hours below a country specific threshold.

Universe

Employed individuals aged 6+ and working weekly less than 35 hours

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 threshold used in such a variable may vary from one dataset to another. The variable's universe will denote the threshold used in each country.

Some of the reasons reported are called "involuntary reasons." They can be used with the criterion of usually working for hours below a certain threshold to define the "visible underemployment."

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original variable indicating the reasons for which an individual reported weekly working hours below 35 hours (rsnlt35) is not reported for those who are temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130). Thus, the generated variable for those cases are recoded "zero". In addition , there are 123 cases their working hours are less than 35 hour but they didn't mention any reason. So, the generated variable for those cases are recoded "zero".

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