Home / Central Data Catalog / EGY_LFS_2015_HD_V1 / variable [V1862]
central

Labor Force Survey, LFS 2015

Egypt, 2015
Get Microdata
Reference ID
EGY_LFS_2015_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
Collections
Labor Force Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 13, 2018
Last modified
May 29, 2023
Page views
237218
Downloads
11951

Seeking a job by reading/watching/responding to advertisements in newspapers/TV (SRCHACT_08)

Data file: Egypt 2015-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 12247
Valid (weighted): 3632052.489
Invalid: 345153
Invalid (weighted): 85260336.672
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 175
End: 175
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V1805

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
0 No 9694 2839059
78.2%
1 Yes 2553 792993
21.8%
Sysmiss 345153 85260337
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
This set of dummy variables should indicate the activity(ies) undertaken by the unemployed in their search efforts to find a job during the reference period.
Universe
Unemployed INDs aged 15+
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
----------------------
Searching for a private project: includes searching for a land, premises, machinery, supplies, farming inputs, etc.
Online search: includes placing or updating the CV on professional or social networking sites.
Applying directly to the employer: includes checking worksites, farms, factories or other assembly places



COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
----------------------------------
Back to Catalog