Labor Force Survey, LFS 2010

Egypt, 2010

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EGY_LFS_2010_HD_V1

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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May 20, 2018

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

Data file: Egypt 2010-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 105008

Valid (weighted): 24102809.49

Invalid: 238905

Invalid (weighted): 54305402.468

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 127

End: 128

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2597

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Government	23593	5464588	22.7%
2	Public sector	3281	762736	3.2%
3	Private sector	77262	17671899	73.3%
4	Joint/Cooperative	0	0	0%
5	Foreign sector	106	25594	0.1%
6	Other	243	55577	0.2%
99	Not stated	523	122417	0.5%
Sysmiss		238905	54305402

Description

Definition

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

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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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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