Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017

Egypt, 2017

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EGY_LFS_2017_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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May 30, 2019

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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2017-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 91405

Valid (weighted): 26060665.613

Invalid: 243991

Invalid (weighted): 69591316.536

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 121

End: 122

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1797

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	18734	4633386	17.8%
2	Public sector	3216	876895	3.4%
3	Private sector	69098	20437573	78.4%
4	Joint/Cooperative	32	9189	0%
5	Foreign sector	26	8867	0%
6	Other	147	40269	0.2%
99	Not stated	152	54485	0.2%
Sysmiss		243991	69591317

Description

Definition

Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.

Universe

Employed individuals 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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.

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