Labor Force Survey, LFS 2012

Palestine, 2012

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PAL_LFS_2012_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Palestine12-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 19441

Valid (weighted): 561703.118

Invalid: 91065

Invalid (weighted): 2530933.131

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 92558.404

Mean: 2048.437

Mean (weighted): 2053.171

Standard deviation: 1522.16

Standard deviation (weighted): 1425.971

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 151

End: 158

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 92558.404296875

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2829

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers 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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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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