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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2022

Palestine, 2022
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PAL_LFS_2022_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Occupation classification of the main job of the head [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (occhd_isco08_2)

Data file: Palestine22-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 15388
Invalid: 10210
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 78
End: 81
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 659
4.3%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 326
2.1%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 196
1.3%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 184
1.2%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 104
0.7%
13 Production and specialized services managers 249
1.6%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 44
0.3%
21 Science and engineering professionals 157
1%
22 Health professionals 301
2%
23 Teaching professionals 706
4.6%
24 Business and administration professionals 365
2.4%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 45
0.3%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 193
1.3%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 126
0.8%
32 Health associate professionals 74
0.5%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 263
1.7%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 72
0.5%
35 Information and communications technicians 29
0.2%
41 General and keyboard clerks 84
0.5%
42 Customer services clerks 73
0.5%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 11
0.1%
44 Other clerical support workers 18
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 311
2%
52 Sales workers 1614
10.5%
53 Personal care workers 17
0.1%
54 Protective services workers 543
3.5%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 483
3.1%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 1
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 29
0.2%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 2161
14%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 550
3.6%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 26
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 321
2.1%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 596
3.9%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 384
2.5%
82 Assemblers 19
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1352
8.8%
91 Cleaners and helpers 357
2.3%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 617
4%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 1177
7.6%
94 Food preparation assistants 136
0.9%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 41
0.3%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 362
2.4%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 12
0.1%
Sysmiss 10210
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
Occupation classification of the main job of the head, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed Heads aged 10+
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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For those employed but temporary unpaid because of waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D=132), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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