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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2008

Palestine, 2008
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PAL_LFS_2008_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Sector of employment of the previous/last held job [Standardized version] (SECTORPRV)

Data file: Palestine08-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 6910
Valid (weighted): 165824.658
Invalid: 100451
Invalid (weighted): 2550864.365
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 160
End: 161
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2134

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Government 515 13189
8%
2 Public sector 0 0
0%
3 Private sector 6128 146094
88.1%
4 Joint/Cooperative 0 0
0%
5 Foreign sector 9 318
0.2%
6 Other 250 6074
3.7%
99 Not stated 8 150
0.1%
Sysmiss 100451 2550864
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 previous/last held job.
Universe
Ever-employed individuals 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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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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The sector of employment generated using the variable pw23, originally indicating the employment status, is not reported for those who found a job and waiting to start, in addition to all other employed individuals for whom the employment status is employer or self-employed.
Thus, the generated variable for those who found a job is recoded "not stated", and the sector was assumed to be private for all employers and self-employed.
Regular private sector was assumed to be inside an establishment; while the irregular one was coded private sector outside an establishment.
The sector for unpaid family workers was assumed to be private-families.
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