Labor Force Survey, LFS 2015

Egypt, 2015

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EGY_LFS_2015_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Employment contract in the main job (EMPCONT)

Data file: Egypt 2015-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 98820

Valid (weighted): 24979892.32

Invalid: 258580

Invalid (weighted): 63912496.841

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 116

End: 118

Width: 3

Range: 100 - 999

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1805

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
100	Yes	0	0	0%
110	Officially hired	23807	5445721	21.8%
120	Written contract for an unlimited duration	6934	1812302	7.3%
130	Written contract for a limited duration	3840	1083727	4.3%
140	Collective agreement	0	0	0%
150	Verbal agreement	0	0	0%
200	No contract	26772	7225047	28.9%
999	Not stated	37467	9413096	37.7%
Sysmiss		258580	63912497

Description

Definition

This variable should indicate whether the individual has an explicit (written or oral) or an implicit employment contract.

Universe

Employed individuals aged 6+

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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- Those reported to be officially hired are permanent workers at their main job. However, no official contract should be signed between them and their employers (e.g., governmental employees).
- Employees with a written contract for a limited duration are those for whom the main job will terminate after a fixed period of time or upon completion of a certain project/task.
- Employees with verbal or oral contracts are those for whom the main job started on the basis of a spoken agreement. Oral contracts are difficult to prove and enforce.
- The individuals for whom an employment contract would not be applicable given their employment status, should be coded 200 "No contract."
-This variable is important for measuring work stability, quality and decency.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original variable indicating the work status (contr_type) is reported only for waged workers. Thus, the generated variable for non wage workers is recoded "not stated".

In the case of Egypt LFS data, a written contract for an unlimited duration denotes a permanent contract, while that with a limited duration denotes a temporary contract.

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