Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017

Egypt, 2017

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Reference ID

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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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2017-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 44058

Valid (weighted): 12782422.778

Invalid: 291338

Invalid (weighted): 82869559.37

Minimum: 8.333

Maximum: 225000

Mean: 2392.421

Mean (weighted): 2308.865

Standard deviation: 4201.595

Standard deviation (weighted): 4091.279

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 156

End: 164

Width: 9

Range: 8.33333333333333 - 225000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1797

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main 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)

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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.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN

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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