Labor Force Survey, LFS 2003

Palestine, 2003

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PAL_LFS_2003_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Economic activity classification of the main job [ISIC Rev.3-2 digits] (IND_ISIC3_2)

Data file: Palestine03-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 26475

Valid (weighted): 543851.274

Invalid: 89677

Invalid (weighted): 1733837.622

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 94

End: 97

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 9999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2886

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Agriculture, hunting and related service activities	5521	89827	16.5%
2	Forestry, logging and related service activities	8	184	0%
5	Fishing, operation of fish hatcheries and fish farms; servic	10	291	0.1%
10	Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of peat	0	0	0%
11	Extraction of crude petroleum & natural gas; service activit	0	0	0%
12	Mining of uranium and thorium ores	0	0	0%
13	Mining of metal ores	0	0	0%
14	Other mining and quarrying	70	1304	0.2%
15	Manufacture of food products and beverages	399	9029	1.7%
16	Manufacture of tobacco products	4	84	0%
17	Manufacture of textiles	74	1528	0.3%
18	Manufacture of wearing apparel; dressing and dyeing of fur	595	13576	2.5%
19	Tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage, han	176	4409	0.8%
20	Manufacture of wood/cork and its products, except furniture;	88	1958	0.4%
21	Manufacture of paper and paper products	26	672	0.1%
22	Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media	61	1670	0.3%
23	Manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear	4	98	0%
24	Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	70	1597	0.3%
25	Manufacture of rubber and plastics products	58	1190	0.2%
26	Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products	558	11545	2.1%
27	Manufacture of basic metals	36	579	0.1%
28	Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery a	376	8626	1.6%
29	Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.	28	750	0.1%
30	Manufacture of office, accounting and computing machinery	0	0	0%
31	Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.	12	276	0.1%
32	Manufacture of radio, television and communication equipment	2	31	0%
33	Manufacture of medical, precision and optical instruments, w	9	238	0%
34	Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers	4	43	0%
35	Manufacture of other transport equipment	4	123	0%
36	Manufacture of furniture; manufacturing n.e.c.	349	8131	1.5%
37	Recycling	14	240	0%
40	Electricity, gas, steam and hot water supply	37	700	0.1%
41	Collection, purification and distribution of water	13	239	0%
45	Construction	3337	69612	12.8%
50	Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycl	666	16129	3%
51	Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicl	443	10722	2%
52	Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles; repa	3382	73821	13.6%
55	Hotels and restaurants	384	8454	1.6%
60	Land transport; transport via pipelines	1266	27189	5%
61	Water transport	0	0	0%
62	Air transport	0	0	0%
63	Supporting and auxiliary transport activities; activities of	54	1150	0.2%
64	Post and telecommunications	105	2377	0.4%
65	Financial intermediation, except insurance and pension fundi	119	2874	0.5%
66	Insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social secu	21	601	0.1%
67	Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation	4	157	0%
70	Real estate activities	27	649	0.1%
71	Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of p	9	203	0%
72	Computer and related activities	37	892	0.2%
73	Research and development	18	468	0.1%
74	Other business activities	253	6263	1.2%
75	Public administration and defense; compulsory social securit	3131	65588	12.1%
80	Education	2684	55939	10.3%
85	Health and social work	935	20691	3.8%
90	Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activitie	10	204	0%
91	Activities of membership organizations n.e.c.	336	7584	1.4%
92	Recreational, cultural and sporting activities	107	2113	0.4%
93	Other service activities	239	5227	1%
95	Private households with employed persons	14	368	0.1%
99	Extra-territorial organizations and bodies	274	5385	1%
9998	Unspecified code	1	10	0%
9999	Not stated	13	240	0%
Sysmiss		89677	1733838

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

Economic activity classification of the main job, following the 2-digits International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 3 (ISIC Rev.3).

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
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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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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.

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