Labor Market Panel Survey, ELMPS 2018
Egypt, Arab Rep., 2018
Economic Research Forum
Identification
Survey ID Number
EGY_ELMPS_2018_V2.0
Title
Labor Market Panel Survey, ELMPS 2018
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Egypt | EGY |
Study type
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Series Information
The Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has carried out The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) during the years 1988, 1998, 2006, 2012 and 2018.
Abstract
"The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Over its twenty-year history, the ELMPS has become the mainstay of labor market and human development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) is the fourth wave of a longitudinal survey carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The 2018 wave follows previous waves in 1998, 2006 and 2012. Over its twenty-year history, the ELMPS has become the mainstay of labor market and human development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The ELMPS is a wide-ranging, nationally representative panel survey that covers topics such as parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women’s decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. ELMPS 2018 also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. (Krafft, C, Assaad, R., and Rahman, K .,2019)
In addition to the survey’s panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and colleges attended at various stages of an individual’s trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
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For details on the the key characteristics of the ELMPS 2018, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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The 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) is the fourth wave of a longitudinal survey carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The 2018 wave follows previous waves in 1998, 2006 and 2012. Over its twenty-year history, the ELMPS has become the mainstay of labor market and human development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The ELMPS is a wide-ranging, nationally representative panel survey that covers topics such as parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women’s decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. ELMPS 2018 also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. (Krafft, C, Assaad, R., and Rahman, K .,2019)
In addition to the survey’s panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and colleges attended at various stages of an individual’s trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
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For details on the the key characteristics of the ELMPS 2018, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
1- Households.
2- Individuals.
3- Enterprises.
2- Individuals.
3- Enterprises.
Version
Version Description
V2.1: this version includes the following data files :
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1) Cross-section (xs) data for 2018.
2) Repeated cross section for 1988, 1998, 2006, 2012 , 2018
3) Panel data
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1) Cross-section (xs) data for 2018.
2) Repeated cross section for 1988, 1998, 2006, 2012 , 2018
3) Panel data
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Production
Date
2019-10
Scope
Notes
The topics covered by the survey included:
Parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women’s decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. ELMPS 2018 also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
In addition to the survey’s panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and colleges attended at various stages of an individual’s trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
Parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women’s decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. ELMPS 2018 also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
In addition to the survey’s panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and colleges attended at various stages of an individual’s trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
Topics
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Labor Force | ERF |
| Unemployment | ERF |
| Enterprises | ERF |
| Migration & Remittances | ERF |
| Education | ERF |
| Social Protection (includes Pensions, Safety Nets, Social Funds) | ERF |
| Earnings | ERF |
| Empowerment | ERF |
| Job dynamics | ERF |
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
| Region | Rural or urban | |
| Greater Cairo | Both | |
| Alexandria and Suez Canal | Urban | |
| Urban Lower Egypt | Urban | |
| Urban Upper Egypt | Urban | |
| Rural Lower Egypt | Rural | |
| Rural Upper Egypt | Rural | |
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For detailed information on the regions and governorates used in the ELMPS 2018 Sample, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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Universe
The survey covered a national sample of households and all households members aged 6 and above. In addition to Enterprises operated by the household.
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name |
|---|
| Economic Research Forum |
Producers
| Name |
|---|
| Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
"As a longitudinal survey, the ELMPS attempts to track households included in the previous waves and interview all their remaining and new members. The survey also tries to locate any individuals who may have split from these households between waves, and attempts to interview them, as well as any other individuals found in the households they formed or joined.
In every wave of the survey, a refresher sample of 2,000-3,000 households is added to maintain the representativeness of the overall sample and to allow for a more in-depth examination of phenomena of interest. The focus we selected for the 2018 wave of the ELMPS was economic vulnerability among Egypt's poorest communities. Accordingly, we added a refresher sample of 2,000 households that oversampled rural communities that were among the "1,000 poorest villages" of Egypt, as ascertained by the most recent national poverty map available to us.
The final sample included 15,746 households and 61,231 individuals. Of these households, 13,793 households included members from 2012 (10,042 panel and 3,751 split households) and 1,953 were refresher households. Among individuals, 53,040 were in households that included at least one individual interviewed in 2012 (i.e., either panel or split households), while 8,191 were in refresher households. Of the 49,186 individuals included in the 2012 sample, 39,153 (79.6%) were successfully re-interviewed in 2018.
Of the 37,140 individuals in the 2006 sample, 22,901 (61.7%) were successfully tracked over three waves. Finally, of the 23,997 individuals included in the 1998 wave, 10,145 (42.3%) were successfully tracked over four waves. We present a detailed discussion of sample attrition patterns in Section 2 and the creation of weights to address such attrition in Section 3. We also discuss the design of the refresher sample and the calculation of the weights for it. In the subsequent section, we compare the (weighted) results of the ELMPS on key demographic and labor market indicators to those of other data sources, namely Egypt's 2017 Census and various rounds of the LFS. First, however, we discuss the design of the questionnaires, sample, and fielding practices." (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
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For details on The Pattern of Attrition from 2012 to 2018, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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In every wave of the survey, a refresher sample of 2,000-3,000 households is added to maintain the representativeness of the overall sample and to allow for a more in-depth examination of phenomena of interest. The focus we selected for the 2018 wave of the ELMPS was economic vulnerability among Egypt's poorest communities. Accordingly, we added a refresher sample of 2,000 households that oversampled rural communities that were among the "1,000 poorest villages" of Egypt, as ascertained by the most recent national poverty map available to us.
The final sample included 15,746 households and 61,231 individuals. Of these households, 13,793 households included members from 2012 (10,042 panel and 3,751 split households) and 1,953 were refresher households. Among individuals, 53,040 were in households that included at least one individual interviewed in 2012 (i.e., either panel or split households), while 8,191 were in refresher households. Of the 49,186 individuals included in the 2012 sample, 39,153 (79.6%) were successfully re-interviewed in 2018.
Of the 37,140 individuals in the 2006 sample, 22,901 (61.7%) were successfully tracked over three waves. Finally, of the 23,997 individuals included in the 1998 wave, 10,145 (42.3%) were successfully tracked over four waves. We present a detailed discussion of sample attrition patterns in Section 2 and the creation of weights to address such attrition in Section 3. We also discuss the design of the refresher sample and the calculation of the weights for it. In the subsequent section, we compare the (weighted) results of the ELMPS on key demographic and labor market indicators to those of other data sources, namely Egypt's 2017 Census and various rounds of the LFS. First, however, we discuss the design of the questionnaires, sample, and fielding practices." (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
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For details on The Pattern of Attrition from 2012 to 2018, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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Weighting
The starting point for weights for the 2018 sample was their household weights in 2012. These weights were adjusted to account for Type I attrition. The weights of split households were derived from their 2012 households, but account for Type II attrition as well as whether any other households may have merged (i.e., share adjustment for component households). These 19 weights are the panel weights, which were brought together with the weights for the refresher sample (which were based on refresher sample design) and then expanded to the national population.
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For details on the creation of sample weights, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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For details on the creation of sample weights, see:
Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. (2019) . Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018. Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 1360
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Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2018-04-30 | 2018-07-31 |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
"Based on experience from past surveys, we eschewed a distinct enumeration round (a phase of locating and listing individuals interviewed in the previous wave prior to fielding). From our experience in the 2012 wave, we found that the data from the enumeration phase could not simply be used directly in fielding, as individuals may have split between enumeration and fielding, and locating households twice added to cost, time, and attrition. In fielding the ELMPS 2012, 1,680 individuals who were enumerated in 2011 were simply not found in the main fieldwork phase in 2012, and we lacked information on whether they split together, died, moved abroad, or otherwise (Assaad and Krafft 2013). A similar problem arose in Jordan in 2016, where, although we designed the questionnaire to track splits at fielding as well as enumeration, many such splits were not actually fielded, leading to the loss of 616 split households and 647 individuals from the sample (Krafft and Assaad 2018). Instead of implementing a separate enumeration phase, data on the status of all 2012 members was collected as part of the main fieldwork in 2018. We processed the data regularly (multiple times per week) throughout fielding to extract split households that needed to be tracked and added them to the server database for fielding. This dynamic process also allowed us to track repeat splits, i.e., cases where individuals split together, but once located, were found to have further sub-divided into additional new households." (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics | CAPMAS |
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
"Each wave of the survey attempts to maintain consistency for the indicators measured in previous waves while adding additional modules and questions to examine new issues or allow more in-depth examination of existing issues. Accordingly, the 2018 wave devoted more attention to the measurement of the instability of employment, focusing in particular on job turnover among casual workers. It also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs.
The 2018 wave has two primary questionnaires, a household questionnaire and an individual questionnaire. The modules in these two questionnaires are;
A) The household questionnaire includes; Statistical Identification; Tracking Splits, Individual Roster; Housing Information; Current Migrants; Transfers from Individuals; Other Sources of Income; Shocks and Coping; Household Non-Farm Activities; Agriculture Assets: Lands; Agriculture Assets: Livestock/Poultry; Agriculture Assets: Equipment; Agricultural Crops and Other Agricultural Income.
B) The individual questionnaire includes; Statistical Identification; Residential Mobility; Father's Characteristics; Mother's Characteristics; Siblings; Health; Education; Past Seven Days Subsistence & Domestic Work; Employment in the Past Seven Days; Unemployment; Employment in the Past Three Months; Characteristics of Main Job; Secondary Job; Labor Market History; Marriage; Fertility; Female Employment; Earnings; Earnings in Secondary Job; Return Migration; Information Technology; Savings & Borrowing and Attitudes.
They are for the most part the same as those in the previous waves of the survey with a few exceptions. The “tracking splits” module in the household questionnaire allows interviewers to ascertain whether the composition of the household has changed since the 2012 wave and inquire about new members present in the household as well as those who may have split to form new households. The “shocks and coping module” is also new in the 2018 wave and enquires about both idiosyncratic and community level shocks that the household may have been exposed to, household food security, and coping mechanisms that the household may have used to respond to shocks. The main changes in the individual questionnaire relative to the 2012 wave were a substantial expansion of the health module, a reconfiguration of the labor market history module to better capture past periods of non-employment7 and the addition of a module on attitudes." (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
The 2018 wave has two primary questionnaires, a household questionnaire and an individual questionnaire. The modules in these two questionnaires are;
A) The household questionnaire includes; Statistical Identification; Tracking Splits, Individual Roster; Housing Information; Current Migrants; Transfers from Individuals; Other Sources of Income; Shocks and Coping; Household Non-Farm Activities; Agriculture Assets: Lands; Agriculture Assets: Livestock/Poultry; Agriculture Assets: Equipment; Agricultural Crops and Other Agricultural Income.
B) The individual questionnaire includes; Statistical Identification; Residential Mobility; Father's Characteristics; Mother's Characteristics; Siblings; Health; Education; Past Seven Days Subsistence & Domestic Work; Employment in the Past Seven Days; Unemployment; Employment in the Past Three Months; Characteristics of Main Job; Secondary Job; Labor Market History; Marriage; Fertility; Female Employment; Earnings; Earnings in Secondary Job; Return Migration; Information Technology; Savings & Borrowing and Attitudes.
They are for the most part the same as those in the previous waves of the survey with a few exceptions. The “tracking splits” module in the household questionnaire allows interviewers to ascertain whether the composition of the household has changed since the 2012 wave and inquire about new members present in the household as well as those who may have split to form new households. The “shocks and coping module” is also new in the 2018 wave and enquires about both idiosyncratic and community level shocks that the household may have been exposed to, household food security, and coping mechanisms that the household may have used to respond to shocks. The main changes in the individual questionnaire relative to the 2012 wave were a substantial expansion of the health module, a reconfiguration of the labor market history module to better capture past periods of non-employment7 and the addition of a module on attitudes." (Krafft, C., Assaad, R., and Rahman, K. ,2019)
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Copyright
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Metadata production
DDI Document ID
EGY_ELMPS_2018_V2.0
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Economic Research Forum | ERF |
Date of Metadata Production
2019-10
DDI Document version
Version 2.0