Labor Force Survey, LFS 2016

Egypt, 2016

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EGY_LFS_2016_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Sector of employment of the main job [Standardized version] (SECTOR)

Data file: Egypt 2016-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 94852

Valid (weighted): 25395910.425

Invalid: 252752

Invalid (weighted): 65545315.575

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 98

End: 99

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1224

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	19626	4727063	18.6%
2	Public sector	3337	863187	3.4%
3	Private sector	71342	19658867	77.4%
4	Joint/Cooperative	44	11851	0%
5	Foreign sector	34	11052	0%
6	Other	224	59159	0.2%
99	Not stated	245	64730	0.3%
Sysmiss		252752	65545316

Description

Definition

Sector of employment (i.e. private versus public sector workers) in the main job.

Universe

Employed individuals 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
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Quasi-public sectors are considered as public.
In the case that there is no distinction between Government and Public, in the original survey, we use the classification as provided.
Cooperative includes employees in joint ventures.
Foreign includes workers in international NGOs.
Others includes workers in national NGOs and in private households.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid (MAS_D=130), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.

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