Labor Force Survey, LFS 2007

Palestine, 2007

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Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2007_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Dec 27, 2015

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Palestine07-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 16263

Valid (weighted): 401229.523

Invalid: 96983

Invalid (weighted): 2222491.751

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 30153.538

Mean: 1737.936

Mean (weighted): 1760.04

Standard deviation: 1168.408

Standard deviation (weighted): 1196.067

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 130

End: 137

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 30153.5378417969

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2594

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers aged 10+

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 value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN
When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.

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