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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2023

Palestine, 2023 - 2024
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PAL_LFS_2023_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: Palestine23-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 2232
Invalid: 20521
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 122
End: 125
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 14
0.6%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 3
0.1%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 4
0.2%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 28
1.3%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 22
1%
13 Production and specialized services managers 69
3.1%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 1
0%
21 Science and engineering professionals 11
0.5%
22 Health professionals 145
6.5%
23 Teaching professionals 873
39.1%
24 Business and administration professionals 65
2.9%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 1
0%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 75
3.4%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 1
0%
32 Health associate professionals 24
1.1%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 82
3.7%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 28
1.3%
35 Information and communications technicians 1
0%
41 General and keyboard clerks 33
1.5%
42 Customer services clerks 10
0.4%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 4
0.2%
44 Other clerical support workers 3
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 92
4.1%
52 Sales workers 182
8.2%
53 Personal care workers 23
1%
54 Protective services workers 6
0.3%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 47
2.1%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 0
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 98
4.4%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 1
0%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 0
0%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 12
0.5%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 0
0%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 95
4.3%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 26
1.2%
82 Assemblers 0
0%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 1
0%
91 Cleaners and helpers 89
4%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 27
1.2%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 19
0.9%
94 Food preparation assistants 8
0.4%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 0
0%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 7
0.3%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 2
0.1%
Sysmiss 20521
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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