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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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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May 30, 2019

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Unemployment duration in months (UNEMPDUR)

Data file: Egypt 2017-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 9541

Valid (weighted): 3473769.324

Invalid: 325855

Invalid (weighted): 92178212.824

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 432

Mean: 38.226

Mean (weighted): 34.706

Standard deviation: 47.922

Standard deviation (weighted): 43.028

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 198

End: 200

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 432

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1797

Description

Definition

The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual had stayed without work since graduation or since he/she left the last held job.

Universe

Unemployed individuals aged 15+

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 variable indicating Unemployment duration in months (UNEMPLOYED_PERIOD) is not reported for those who are unemployed (not seeking a job) (MAS_D=230). Thus, the generated variable for those cases is missing.

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