Labor Force Survey, LFS 2014

Egypt, 2014

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Reference ID

EGY_LFS_2014_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Apr 24, 2017

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2014-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 44394

Valid (weighted): 11081132.459

Invalid: 308946

Invalid (weighted): 75716298.48

Minimum: 0.167

Maximum: 34240

Mean: 1660.35

Mean (weighted): 1664.406

Standard deviation: 1189.049

Standard deviation (weighted): 1190.315

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 138

End: 145

Width: 8

Range: 0.166666666666667 - 34240

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2258

Description

Definition

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

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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

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The wages are provided either weekly, monthly or yearly in pounds.
The weekly wages were multiplied by 4 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable indicating monthly wages

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