Labor Force Survey, LFS 2022

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2022

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2022_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

Collections

Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Nov 15, 2023

Last modified

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Previously worked during the reference period (prvwrk)

Data file: Egypt 2022-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 199114

Invalid: 100309

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 220

End: 220

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never worked during the reference period	120584	60.6%
1	Employed but previous job is not reported	76411	38.4%
2	Employed & reported a previous job	0	0%
3	Not working & reported a last held job	2119	1.1%
Sysmiss		100309

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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