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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2011

Palestine, 2011
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PAL_LFS_2011_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the head (TOTWAGHD)

Data file: Palestine11-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 11588
Valid (weighted): 293195.07
Invalid: 16494
Invalid (weighted): 421732.961
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 17692.308
Mean: 2388.47
Mean (weighted): 2442.417
Standard deviation: 1434.335
Standard deviation (weighted): 1473.179
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 2
Start: 221
End: 228
Width: 8
Range: 0 - 17692.3076923077
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2555

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the total monthly wage the head, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
Universe
Waged Workers Heads aged 10+
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

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Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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The value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN
When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.
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