{"doc_desc":{"title":"Template_project","idno":"EGY_LFS_2013_HD_V1","producers":[{"name":"Economic Research Forum","abbreviation":"ERF","affiliation":"","role":"Cleaning and harmonizing raw data received from the Statistical Agency"}],"prod_date":"2016-05","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"EGY_LFS_2013_HD_V1","title":"Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013","alt_title":"LFS 2013"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Economic Research Forum","affiliation":""},{"name":"Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics","affiliation":"Egypt"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(c) 2016, Economic Research Forum | (c) 2013, CAPMAS, Egypt"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Economic Research Forum (ERF) - 21 Al-Sad Al-Aaly St., Dokki, Giza, Egypt","affiliation":"","email":"erfdataportal@erf.org.eg","uri":"www.erf.org.eg"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Labor Force Survey [hh\/lfs]","series_info":"A quarterly survey collected by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1: A cleaned and a harmonized version of the survey dataset, produced by the Economic Research Forum for dissemination.","version_date":"2016-05","version_notes":"All documentation available for the original survey provided by the Statistical Agency, and for the harmonized datasets produced by the Economic Research Forum, are published, along with a copy of all occupations and economic activities used during the harmonization process. \nHowever, as far as the datasets are concerned, the Economic Research Forum produces and releases only the harmonized versions in both SPSS and STATA formats."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Demographics","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Education","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Nationality and immigration","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Labor Force","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Employment","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Unemployment","vocab":"ERF","uri":""},{"topic":"Wages and incomes","vocab":"ERF","uri":""}],"abstract":"
THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE CENTRAL AGENCY FOR PUBLIC MOBILIZATION AND STATISTICS (CAPMAS) <\/p> \n\nIn any society, the human element represents the basis of the work force which exercises all the service and production activities. Therefore, it is a mandate to produce labor force statistics and studies, that is related to the growth and distribution of manpower and labor force distribution by different types and characteristics.\n\nIn this context, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics conducts \"Quarterly Labor Force Survey\" which includes data on the size of manpower and labor force (employed and unemployed) and their geographical distribution by their characteristics.\n\nBy the end of each year, CAPMAS issues the annual aggregated labor force bulletin publication that includes the results of the quarterly survey rounds that represent the manpower and labor force characteristics during the year.\n\nHistorical Review of the Labor Force Survey:\n------------------------------------------------------\n1- The First Labor Force survey was undertaken in 1957. The first round was conducted in November of that year, the survey continued to be conducted in successive rounds (quarterly, bi-annually, or annually) till now.\n\n2- Starting the October 2006 round, the fieldwork of the labor force survey was developed to focus on the following two points:\n a. The importance of using the panel sample that is part of the survey sample, to monitor the dynamic changes of the labor market.\n b. Improving the used questionnaire to include more questions, that help in better defining of relationship to labor force of each household member (employed, unemployed, out of labor force ...etc.). In addition to re-order of some of the already existing questions in much logical way.\n\n3- Starting the January 2008 round, the used methodology was developed to collect more representative sample during the survey year. this is done through distributing the sample of each governorate into five groups, the questionnaires are collected from each of them separately every 15 days for 3 months (in the middle and the end of the month) \n\n4- Starting the January 2012 round, in order to follow the international recommendation, to avoid asking extra questions that affect the precision and accuracy of the collected data, a shortened version of the questionnaire was designed to include the core questions that enable obtaining the basic Egyptian labor market indicators. The shortened version is collected in two rounds (January-March), (April-June), and (October-December) while the long version of the questionnaire is collected in the 3rd round (July-September) that includes more information on housing conditions and immigration. \n\nThe survey aims at covering the following topics:\n------------------------------------------------------------\n1- Measuring the size of the Egyptian labor force among civilians (for all governorates of the republic) by their different characteristics.\n2- Measuring the employment rate at national level and different geographical areas.\n3- Measuring the distribution of employed people by the following characteristics: Gender, age, educational status, occupation, economic activity, and sector.\n4- Measuring unemployment rate at different geographic areas. \n5- Measuring the distribution of unemployed people by the following characteristics: Gender, age, educational status, unemployment type \u201cever employed\/never employed\u201d, occupation, economic activity, and sector for people who have ever worked.\n\nThe raw survey data provided by the Statistical Agency were cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major project that started in 2009. During which extensive efforts have been exerted to acquire, clean, harmonize, preserve and disseminate micro data of existing labor force surveys in several Arab countries.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2013-01-01","end":"2013-03-31","cycle":"First round"},{"start":"2013-04-01","end":"2013-06-30","cycle":"Second round"},{"start":"2013-07-01","end":"2013-09-30","cycle":"Third round"},{"start":"2013-10-01","end":"2013-12-31","cycle":"Fourth round"}],"nation":[{"name":"Egypt","abbreviation":"EGY"}],"geog_coverage":"Covering a sample of urban and rural areas in all the governorates.","analysis_unit":"1- Household\/family.\n2- Individual\/person.","universe":"The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Household: Includes geographical characteristics, household composition, LFS classification of household members, head's and spouse's characteristics, dwelling characteristics and ownership of durables.\n\nIndividual: Includes demographics, nationality and immigration, education, current labor status, main job, secondary job and last held job characteristics, wages and incomes, unemployment characteristics and inactivity reason(s)."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics","abbreviation":"CAPMAS","affiliation":""}],"sampling_procedure":"
THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE CENTRAL AGENCY FOR PUBLIC MOBILIZATION AND STATISTICS (CAPMAS) <\/p> \n\nSample Design and Selection\n==================\n\nThe sample of the LFS 2013 survey is a self-weighted two-stage stratified cluster sample. \nThe main elements of the sampling design are described as follows:\n\n* Sample Size \nThe sample size in each quarter is 23,864 households with a total number of 95,456 households annually. These households are distributed on the governorate level (urban\/rural), according to the estimated number of households in each governorate in accordance with the percentage of urban and rural population in each governorate.\n\n* Cluster size \nThe cluster size is 19 households.\n\n* Sampling stages:\n\n A- First stage sample\n ---------------------------\n (1) Primary Sampling Unit (PSU):\nThe 2006 Population Census provided sufficient data at the level of the Enumeration Area (EA). Hence, the electronic list of EA's represented the frame of the first stage sample; in which the corresponding number of households per EA was taken as a measure of size. \nThe size of an EA is almost 200 households on average, with some variability expected. The size of first stage national sample was estimated to be 5,024 EA.\n\n (2) Sample Distribution by Governorate:\nThe primary stratifying variable is the governorate of residence, which in turn is divided into urban and rural sub-strata, whenever applicable. \n\n (3) First Stage Sample frame:\nThe census lists of EAs for each substratum, associated with the corresponding number of households, constitute the frame of the first stage sample. \nThe identification information appears on the EA's list includes the District code, Shiakha\/Village code, Census Supervisor number, and Enumerator number. \nPrior to the selection of the first stage sample, the frame was arranged to provide implicit stratification with regard to the geographic location. \nThe urban frame of each governorate was ordered in a serpentine fashion according to the geographic location of kism\/ district capitals. The same sort of ordering was made on the rural frame, but according to the district location. The systematic selection of EA's sample from such a sorted frame will ensure a balanced spread of the sample over the area of respective governorates.\nThe sample was selected with Probability Proportional to Size (PPS), with the number of census households taken as a Measure of Size (MOS).\n\n (4) Core Sample allocation\nThe core sample EAs (5,024) were divided among the survey 4 rounds, each round included 1,256 EAs (573 in urban areas and 683 in rural areas).\n\n\n B- Second Stage Sample:\n ------------------------------\nThis is the final stage sample and was implemented in 2 stages:\n1- Selection of the New sample \n2- Selection of the panel sample\n\nA more detailed description of the different sampling stages and allocation of sample across governorates is provided in the Methodology document available among external resources in Arabic.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The questionnaire design follows the latest International Labor Organization (ILO) concepts and definitions of labor force, employment, and unemployment.\n\nThe questionnaire comprises 4 tables in addition to the identification and geographic data of household on the cover page. \n\nTable 1- The housing conditions of the households \n==============================\nThis table includes information on the housing conditions of the household:\n- Type of the dwelling,\n- Tenure of the dwelling (owned\/rent) ,\n- Availability of facilities and services connected to the house \n- Ownership of durables.\n\nTable 2- Demographic and employment characteristics and basic data for all household individuals\n===========================================================\nIncluding: gender, age, educational status, marital status, residence mobility and current work status\n\nTable 3- Employment characteristics table\n==========================\nThis table is filled by employed individuals at the time of the survey or those who were engaged to work during the reference week, and provided information on:\n- Relationship to employer: employer, self-employed, waged worker, and unpaid family worker\n- Economic activity\n- Sector\n- Occupation\n- Effective working hours\n- Health and social insurance\n- Work place\n- Contract type\n- Average monthly wage\n\nTable 4- Unemployment characteristics table\n===========================\nThis table is filled by all unemployed individuals who satisfied the unemployment criteria, and provided information on:\n- Type of unemployment (unemployed, unemployed ever worked)\n- Economic activity and occupation in the last held job before being unemployed\n- Last unemployment duration in months\n- Main reason for unemployment","coll_situation":"Field work\n========\n\n1- The field staff was selected from among the efficient experienced persons working in CAPMAS.\n2- Intensive training program for supervisors was conducted at CAPMAS in Cairo and locally in governorates for interviewers and field editors.\n3- Supervision program was implemented in all governorates to check the fieldwork.\n4- Data were collected by using personal interview method for household in dwelling and it had been obtained from the head of household or wife or any eligible person in case of their absence.\n5- Duties and responsibilities of all levels of field staff (interviewer, editor and supervisor) were defined to insure the accuracy and timing.","cleaning_operations":"Raw Data\n=======\nOffice editing is one of the main stages of the survey. It started once the questionnaires were received from the field and accomplished by the selected work groups. It includes:\na-Editing of coverage and completeness\nb-Editing of consistency\n\n\nHarmonized Data\n============\n- The SPSS package is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.\n- The harmonization process starts with a cleaning process for all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency.\n- All cleaned data files are then merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.\n- A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate\/ compute\/ recode\/ rename\/ format\/ label harmonized variables.\n- A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data.\n- Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and then converted to STATA, to be disseminated.","method_notes":"Coding\n=======\nSpecialized staff has coded the data of industry, occupation and geographical identification.\n\nData Processing and preparation of final results\n==============================\nThis stage included machine data entry, data validation, tabulation and preparation of final survey volumes.\n\nQuality Control Procedures\n==================\nThe precision of survey results depends to a large extent on how the survey has been prepared for. As such, it was deemed crucial to exert much effort and to take necessary actions towards rigorous preparation for the present survey as follows:\n\n1- Applying the recent international recommendations of different concepts and definitions.\n2- Evaluating the quality of data in all different implementation stages to avoid or minimize errors to the lowest extent possible through:\n a- Implementing field editing after finishing data collection for households in governorates to avoid any errors in suitable time \n (1 field editor was assigned for every 5 interviewers to review the collected questionnaires) \n b- Re-interviewing a sample of households by Quality Control Department and examining the differences with the original responses."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"On the national level (94.5 %)\nUrban level (89.7%)\nRural level (98.6%)\n\nResponse rates on the governorate level are presented in the methodology document attached to the documentation materials published in Arabic."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"To access the micro data, researchers are required to register on the ERF website and comply with the data access agreement.\n\nThe data will be used only for scholarly research, or educational purposes. Users are prohibited from using data acquired from the Economic Research Forum in the pursuit of any commercial or private ventures.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Economic Research Forum","affiliation":"Economic Research Forum (ERF)","email":"erfdataportal@erf.org.eg","uri":"www.erf.org.eg"}],"cit_req":"The users should cite the Economic Research Forum and the Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics as follows:\n\nOAMDI, 2016. Harmonized Labor Force Surveys (HLFS), http:\/\/erf.org.eg\/data-portal\/. Version 1.0 of Licensed Data Files; LFS 2013- Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt: Economic Research Forum (ERF).","conditions":"Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions.","disclaimer":"The Economic Research Forum and the Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics have granted the researcher access to relevant data following exhaustive efforts to protect the confidentiality of individual data. The researcher is solely responsible for any analysis or conclusions drawn from available data."}}}}