Labor Force Survey, LFS 2021

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2021_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Dec 12, 2022

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Previously worked during the reference period (prvwrk)

Data file: Egypt 2021-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 206352

Invalid: 107081

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 351

End: 354

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 3

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never worked during the reference period	122185	59.2%
1	Employed but previous job is not reported	81498	39.5%
2	Employed & reported a previous job	0	0%
3	Not working & reported a last held job	2669	1.3%
Sysmiss		107081

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

This variable should identify those who have previously been employed for pay or for profit for a continuous period of time.

Universe

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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This information is collected for all individuals in the working-age population to identify those who have previously experienced any employment during the reference period.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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the variable (PAID_WORK_TYPE_CODE) was only collected for ROUND=1|=4

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