Labor Force Survey, LFS 2002

Palestine, 2002

Get Microdata

Reference ID

PAL_LFS_2002_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Mar 13, 2016

Last modified

Oct 11, 2016

Page views

147591

Downloads

5877

Geographical workplace of the main job (GWRKPLC)

Data file: Palestine02-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 19347

Valid (weighted): 454318.092

Invalid: 78578

Invalid (weighted): 1747126.162

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 103

End: 108

Width: 6

Range: 275001 - 999999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V3235

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
275001	West bank	11654	287065	63.2%
275002	Gaza strip	5963	124675	27.4%
275003	Israel, camps or industrial borders	1706	41848	9.2%
777777	Working abroad	14	415	0.1%
888888	Mobile workers	0	0	0%
999999	Not stated	10	315	0.1%
Sysmiss		78578	1747126

Description

Definition

This variable provides information about the geographical place of work (e.g. district/ governorate/ region) of the main job.

Universe

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
----------------------
The geographical workplace is generated using the highest level of aggregation provided in the original data, and broke down by urban/rural if possible.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
----------------------------------
The variable pw18, as provided in the raw data, identifies those who are working in the west bank, Gaza strip, Israel or abroad.
For those employed but temporary unpaid because of waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D=132), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.

Back to Catalog