Labor Force Survey, LFS 2018

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2018

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2018_HD_V3

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Unemployment duration in months (UNEMPDUR)

Data file: Egypt 2018-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 4792

Valid (weighted): 2836895.516

Invalid: 318887

Invalid (weighted): 94105586.226

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 84

Mean: 16.907

Mean (weighted): 16.76

Standard deviation: 13.322

Standard deviation (weighted): 13.216

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 215

End: 217

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 432

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1961

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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