Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017

Egypt, 2017

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2017_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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May 30, 2019

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the first spouse (TOTWAGSP_1)

Data file: Egypt 2017-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 6459

Invalid: 76443

Minimum: 8.333

Maximum: 112500

Mean: 2331.499

Standard deviation: 4068.752

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 238

End: 246

Width: 9

Range: 8.33333333333333 - 112500

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the first spouse, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

Universe

Waged Workers Spouses 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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The value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The wages are provided either daily, weekly, monthly or yearly in pounds.
The daily wages were multiplied by 30, the weekly wages were multiplied by 4 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable indicating monthly wages.

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