This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.
Universe
Waged workers aged 6+
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
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
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The total wages were then generated by summating all wage variables by type of wage, after converting all original variables to monthly amounts.