Labor Force Survey, LFS 2006

Egypt, 2006

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2006_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization And Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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May 12, 2019

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Total monthly basic wage from the main regular job (BASWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2006-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 44442

Valid (weighted): 9464994.847

Invalid: 291007

Invalid (weighted): 61339769.363

Minimum: 0.333

Maximum: 43200

Mean: 392.063

Mean (weighted): 395.555

Standard deviation: 819.971

Standard deviation (weighted): 854.72

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 125

End: 132

Width: 8

Range: 41.6666666666667 - 12000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2522

Description

Definition

Total monthly basic wage from the main regular job

Universe

Waged workers 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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original wage variables (by type of wage) are only reported for waged workers and regular employment only.
The daily, weekly, monthly, 3-month, quarter and yearly wages in pounds are provided.
The daily wages were multiplied by 24, weekly wages were multiplied by 4, 3-month quarter wages were divided by 3 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable of monthly wages (by type).

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