Employment and Unemployment Survey, EUS 2008

Jordan, 2008

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Reference ID

JOR_EUS_2008_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Department of Statistics

Collections

Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

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Dec 27, 2015

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Job search duration in months (SRCHDUR)

Data file: Jordan08-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 8247

Valid (weighted): 7667.233

Invalid: 251807

Invalid (weighted): 252401.143

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 107

Mean: 9.76

Mean (weighted): 9.352

Standard deviation: 11.166

Standard deviation (weighted): 10.664

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 127

End: 129

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 107

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1525

Description

Definition

The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual has been searching for a job.

Universe

Unemployed individuals aged 15+

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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The period of search reported should be the last continuous period of active search without significant interruption (significant may imply active search efforts for a continuous period of at least four weeks).

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by summing two variables Q231M (job search duration in months) and Q231Y (job search duration in years) after multiplying it by 12 to convert it to months.

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