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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2019

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2019
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EGY_LFS_2019_HD_V2
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Labor Force Surveys
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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2019-LFS IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 84881
Invalid: 238076
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 191
End: 195
Width: 5
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 17625
20.8%
2 Public sector 2301
2.7%
3 Private sector 64678
76.2%
4 Joint/Cooperative 28
0%
5 Foreign sector 0
0%
6 Other 207
0.2%
99 Not stated 42
0%
Sysmiss 238076
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
Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.
Universe
Employed individuals 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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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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