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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 [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCC_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine22-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 26983
Invalid: 68994
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 95
End: 98
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 759
2.8%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 421
1.6%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 296
1.1%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 212
0.8%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 142
0.5%
13 Production and specialized services managers 341
1.3%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 53
0.2%
21 Science and engineering professionals 294
1.1%
22 Health professionals 728
2.7%
23 Teaching professionals 2131
7.9%
24 Business and administration professionals 654
2.4%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 107
0.4%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 408
1.5%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 183
0.7%
32 Health associate professionals 157
0.6%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 511
1.9%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 140
0.5%
35 Information and communications technicians 48
0.2%
41 General and keyboard clerks 193
0.7%
42 Customer services clerks 146
0.5%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 23
0.1%
44 Other clerical support workers 28
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 798
3%
52 Sales workers 3154
11.7%
53 Personal care workers 70
0.3%
54 Protective services workers 655
2.4%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 675
2.5%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 2
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 332
1.2%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 2808
10.4%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 840
3.1%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 65
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 526
1.9%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 1124
4.2%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 673
2.5%
82 Assemblers 29
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1725
6.4%
91 Cleaners and helpers 741
2.7%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 1113
4.1%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 2563
9.5%
94 Food preparation assistants 373
1.4%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 65
0.2%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 639
2.4%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 38
0.1%
Sysmiss 68994
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, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed individuals 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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