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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2013

Palestine, 2013
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PAL_LFS_2013_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 first spouse (TOTWAGSP_1)

Data file: Palestine13-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 1749
Valid (weighted): 50085.921
Invalid: 24670
Invalid (weighted): 707231.951
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 12500
Mean: 2118.187
Mean (weighted): 2140.891
Standard deviation: 1011.593
Standard deviation (weighted): 1171.714
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 2
Start: 229
End: 236
Width: 8
Range: 0 - 12500
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2913

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the total monthly wage the first spouse, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
Universe
Waged Workers 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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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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