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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2014

Palestine, 2014
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PAL_LFS_2014_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: Palestine14-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 10309
Valid (weighted): 338099.125
Invalid: 15426
Invalid (weighted): 508473.559
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 21446.615
Mean: 2586.336
Mean (weighted): 2606.015
Standard deviation: 1552.534
Standard deviation (weighted): 1567.677
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 2
Start: 222
End: 229
Width: 8
Range: 0 - 21446.6153846154
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2913

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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