Labor Force Survey, LFS 2014

Palestine, 2014

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PAL_LFS_2014_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Jan 23, 2017

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Palestine14-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 18005

Valid (weighted): 609406.592

Invalid: 82740

Invalid (weighted): 2676368.052

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 21446.615

Mean: 2227.513

Mean (weighted): 2218.471

Standard deviation: 1465.971

Standard deviation (weighted): 1460.399

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 152

End: 159

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 21446.6153846154

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V3008

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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