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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2019

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2019
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EGY_LFS_2019_HD_V2
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Main activity status in the reference period [Standardized version] (MAS)

Data file: Egypt 2019-LFS IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 282475
Invalid: 40482
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 149
End: 153
Width: 5
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Employed 84881
30%
2 Unemployed 5629
2%
3 Homemaker (Housewife) 63442
22.5%
4 Student 94169
33.3%
5 Pensioners/retired/disabled 23413
8.3%
6 Others 10941
3.9%
99 Not stated 0
0%
Sysmiss 40482
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
Main activity status with respect to the labor force, which distinguishes between the employed and the not employed. The employed are those for whom work is the main activity, while for all the others the main activity should attempt to distinguish between pensioners, students, and homemakers.
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Individuals 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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Unlike LFS, the main distinction in MAS is between “employed” and “not employed.”
- “Employed”: refers to those who, during the reference period, experienced any employment (any type or any extent) - even just one occasional hour of paid work or irregular unpaid family work (ILO definition).
- “Not Employed”: The rationale is that the individuals do not generally spend their time “being unemployed,” but use the unemployment time to participate in other activities (e.g., attending school or being a housewife). Unemployment will generally be considered the primary activity only if the individual states that unemployment is his/her primary activity (e.g., unemployed and actively searching for a job) or if the individual is registered as unemployed and does not indicate significant participation in any other activity. In these cases, the individuals will be assigned their own category among the “Not Employed.”
Accordingly, "Not Employed" is classified into:
- Unemployed - individuals who are not employed comprise all who are "not in employment" but "currently available to take up employment" and carry out "activities to


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