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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2021

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021
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EGY_LFS_2021_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (sector)

Data file: Egypt 2021-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 81498
Invalid: 231935
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 207
End: 211
Width: 5
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Government 15741
19.3%
2 Public sector 1975
2.4%
3 Private sector 63470
77.9%
4 Joint/Cooperative 41
0.1%
5 Foreign sector 0
0%
6 Other 119
0.1%
99 Not stated 152
0.2%
Sysmiss 231935
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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