Labor Force Survey, LFS 2011

Egypt, 2011

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EGY_LFS_2011_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Apr 24, 2017

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Total monthly basic wage from the main regular job (BASWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2011-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 49473

Valid (weighted): 10939638.543

Invalid: 322911

Invalid (weighted): 69456168.337

Minimum: 35

Maximum: 25000

Mean: 904.496

Mean (weighted): 912.952

Standard deviation: 659.162

Standard deviation (weighted): 676.277

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 153

End: 160

Width: 8

Range: 35 - 25000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2302

Description

Definition

Total monthly basic wage from the main regular job

Universe

Waged workers aged 6+

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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original wage variables (by type of wage) are only reported for wage workers and regular employment only.
The daily, weekly, monthly, 3-month, quarter and yearly wages in pounds are provided.
The daily wages were multiplied by 24, weekly wages were multiplied by 4, 3-month quarter wages were divided by 3 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable of monthly wages (by type).

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