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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2008

Egypt, 2008
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Reference ID
EGY_LFS_2008_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics
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Source of energy for lighting (SLIGHT)

Data file: Egypt 2008-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 75326
Invalid: 1
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 294
End: 294
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No lighting 0
0%
1 Public network 74936
99.5%
2 Private 0
0%
3 Gas 130
0.2%
4 Kerosene 205
0.3%
8 Others 55
0.1%
Sysmiss 1
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
This variable distinguishes between public and private sources of electricity and other sources of energy used for lighting.
Universe
All households
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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Private sources of electricity include community and private generators and cooperative networks.
"Others" may include sources that are presented independently in the standardized value if the survey is not detailed enough (examples are gas and kerosene).


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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