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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 first spouse [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (occsp_1_isco08_2)

Data file: Palestine22-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 2670
Invalid: 22928
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 130
End: 133
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 22
0.8%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 4
0.1%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 0
0%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 21
0.8%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 11
0.4%
13 Production and specialized services managers 77
2.9%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 3
0.1%
21 Science and engineering professionals 15
0.6%
22 Health professionals 200
7.5%
23 Teaching professionals 1013
37.9%
24 Business and administration professionals 93
3.5%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 0
0%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 84
3.1%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 1
0%
32 Health associate professionals 37
1.4%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 104
3.9%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 20
0.7%
35 Information and communications technicians 5
0.2%
41 General and keyboard clerks 43
1.6%
42 Customer services clerks 24
0.9%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 0
0%
44 Other clerical support workers 2
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 93
3.5%
52 Sales workers 187
7%
53 Personal care workers 26
1%
54 Protective services workers 6
0.2%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 53
2%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 0
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 134
5%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 2
0.1%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 1
0%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 9
0.3%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 1
0%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 136
5.1%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 29
1.1%
82 Assemblers 1
0%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1
0%
91 Cleaners and helpers 101
3.8%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 58
2.2%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 24
0.9%
94 Food preparation assistants 12
0.4%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 0
0%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 10
0.4%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 7
0.3%
Sysmiss 22928
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 first spouse, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed Spouses 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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