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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017

Egypt, 2017
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EGY_LFS_2017_HD_V1
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    Survey ID
    EGY_LFS_2017_HD_V1
    Title
    Labor Force Survey, LFS 2017
    Country
    Name Country code
    Egypt EGY
    Study type
    Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
    Series information
    A quarterly survey collected by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
    Abstract
    <p style="border:solid thin black;"> THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE CENTRAL AGENCY FOR PUBLIC MOBILIZATION AND STATISTICS (CAPMAS) </p>

    In any society, the human element represents the basis of the work force which exercises all the service and production activities. Therefore, it is a mandate to produce labor force statistics and studies, that is related to the growth and distribution of manpower and labor force distribution by different types and characteristics.

    In this context, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics conducts "Quarterly Labor Force Survey" which includes data on the size of manpower and labor force (employed and unemployed) and their geographical distribution by their characteristics.

    By the end of each year, CAPMAS issues the annual aggregated labor force bulletin publication that includes the results of the quarterly survey rounds that represent the manpower and labor force characteristics during the year.

    ---> Historical Review of the Labor Force Survey:

    1- The First Labor Force survey was undertaken in 1957. The first round was conducted in November of that year, the survey continued to be conducted in successive rounds (quarterly, bi-annually, or annually) till now.

    2- Starting the October 2006 round, the fieldwork of the labor force survey was developed to focus on the following two points:
    a. The importance of using the panel sample that is part of the survey sample, to monitor the dynamic changes of the labor market.
    b. Improving the used questionnaire to include more questions, that help in better defining of relationship to labor force of each household member (employed, unemployed, out of labor force ...etc.). In addition to re-order of some of the already existing questions in much logical way.

    3- Starting the January 2008 round, the used methodology was developed to collect more representative sample during the survey year. this is done through distributing the sample of each governorate into five groups, the questionnaires are collected from each of them separately every 15 days for 3 months (in the middle and the end of the month)

    4- Starting the January 2012 round, in order to follow the international recommendation, to avoid asking extra questions that affect the precision and accuracy of the collected data, a shortened version of the questionnaire was designed to include the core questions that enable obtaining the basic Egyptian labor market indicators. The shortened version is collected in two rounds (January-March), (April-June), and (October-December) while the long version of the questionnaire is collected in the 3rd round (July-September) that includes more information on housing conditions and immigration.

    ---> The survey aims at covering the following topics:

    1- Measuring the size of the Egyptian labor force among civilians (for all governorates of the republic) by their different characteristics.
    2- Measuring the employment rate at national level and different geographical areas.
    3- Measuring the distribution of employed people by the following characteristics: Gender, age, educational status, occupation, economic activity, and sector.
    4- Measuring unemployment rate at different geographic areas.
    5- Measuring the distribution of unemployed people by the following characteristics: Gender, age, educational status, unemployment type “ever employed/never employed”, occupation, economic activity, and sector for people who have ever worked.

    The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Agency were cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major project that started in 2009. During which extensive efforts have been exerted to acquire, clean, harmonize, preserve and disseminate micro data of existing labor force surveys in several Arab countries.
    Kind of data
    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of analysis
    1- Household/family.
    2- Individual/person.

    Version

    Version
    V1: A cleaned and a harmonized version of the survey dataset, produced by the Economic Research Forum for dissemination.
    Version date
    2019-05
    Version notes
    All documentation available for the original survey provided by the Statistical Agency, and for the harmonized datasets produced by the Economic Research Forum, are published, along with a copy of all occupations and economic activities used during the harmonization process.
    However, as far as the datasets are concerned, the Economic Research Forum produces and releases only the harmonized versions in both SPSS and STATA formats.

    Scope

    Notes
    Household: Includes geographical characteristics, household composition, LFS classification of household members, head's and spouse's characteristics, dwelling characteristics and ownership of durables.

    Individual: Includes demographics, nationality and immigration, education, current labor status, main job, secondary job and last held job characteristics, wages and incomes, unemployment characteristics and inactivity reason(s).
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Demographics ERF
    Education ERF
    Nationality and immigration ERF
    Labor Force ERF
    Employment ERF
    Unemployment ERF
    Wages and incomes ERF

    Coverage

    Geographic coverage
    Covering a sample of urban and rural areas in all the governorates.
    Universe
    The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Economic Research Forum
    Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics Egypt

    Sampling

    Sampling procedure
    <p style="border:solid thin black;"> THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE CENTRAL AGENCY FOR PUBLIC MOBILIZATION AND STATISTICS (CAPMAS) </p>

    ---> Sample Design and Selection

    The sample of the LFS 2017 survey is a self-weighted two-stage stratified cluster sample.
    The main elements of the sampling design are described as follows:

    * Sample Size
    The sample size in each quarter is 22,896 households with a total number of 91,584 households annually. These households are distributed on the governorate level (urban/rural), according to the estimated number of households in each governorate in accordance with the percentage of urban and rural population in each governorate.

    * Cluster size
    The cluster size is 18 households.

    * Sampling stages:

    (1) Primary Sampling Unit (PSU):
    The 2006 Population Census provided sufficient data at the level of the Enumeration Area (EA). Hence, the electronic list of EA's represented the frame of the first stage sample; in which the corresponding number of households per EA was taken as a measure of size.
    The size of an EA is almost 200 households on average, with some variability expected. The size of first stage national sample was estimated to be 5,024 EA.

    (2) Sample Distribution by Governorate:
    The primary stratifying variable is the governorate of residence, which in turn is divided into urban and rural sub-strata, whenever applicable.

    (3) First Stage Sample frame:
    The census lists of EAs for each substratum, associated with the corresponding number of households, constitute the frame of the first stage sample.
    The identification information appears on the EA's list includes the District code, Shiakha/Village code, Census Supervisor number, and Enumerator number.
    Prior to the selection of the first stage sample, the frame was arranged to provide implicit stratification with regard to the geographic location.
    The urban frame of each governorate was ordered in a serpentine fashion according to the geographic location of kism/ district capitals. The same sort of ordering was made on the rural frame, but according to the district location. The systematic selection of EA's sample from such a sorted frame will ensure a balanced spread of the sample over the area of respective governorates.
    The sample was selected with Probability Proportional to Size (PPS), with the number of census households taken as a Measure of Size (MOS).

    (4) Core Sample allocation
    The core sample EAs (5,024) were divided among the survey 4 rounds, each round included 1,272 EAs (585 in urban areas and 687 in rural areas).

    A more detailed description of the different sampling stages and allocation of sample across governorates is provided in the Methodology document available among external resources in Arabic.
    Response rates
    On the national level (90.5 %)
    Urban level (82.6%)
    Rural level (97.3%)

    Response rates on the governorate level are presented in the methodology document attached to the documentation materials published in Arabic.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires
    The questionnaire design follows the latest International Labor Organization (ILO) concepts and definitions of labor force, employment, and unemployment.

    The questionnaire comprises 4 tables in addition to the identification and geographic data of household on the cover page.

    ---> Table 1- The housing conditions of the households

    This table includes information on the housing conditions of the household:
    - Type of the dwelling,
    - Tenure of the dwelling (owned/rent) ,
    - Availability of facilities and services connected to the house
    - Ownership of durables.

    ---> Table 2- Demographic and employment characteristics and basic data for all household individuals

    Including: gender, age, educational status, marital status, residence mobility and current work status

    ---> Table 3- Employment characteristics table

    This table is filled by employed individuals at the time of the survey or those who were engaged to work during the reference week, and provided information on:
    - Relationship to employer: employer, self-employed, waged worker, and unpaid family worker
    - Economic activity
    - Sector
    - Occupation
    - Effective working hours
    - Health and social insurance
    - Work place
    - Contract type
    - Average monthly wage

    ---> Table 4- Unemployment characteristics table

    This table is filled by all unemployed individuals who satisfied the unemployment criteria, and provided information on:
    - Type of unemployment (unemployed, unemployed ever worked)
    - Economic activity and occupation in the last held job before being unemployed
    - Last unemployment duration in months
    - Main reason for unemployment

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2017-01-01 2017-03-31 First round
    2017-04-01 2017-06-30 Second round
    2017-07-01 2017-09-30 Third round
    2017-10-01 2017-12-31 Fourth round
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
    Notes on data collection
    ---> Field work

    1- The field staff was selected from among the efficient experienced persons working in CAPMAS.
    2- Intensive training program for supervisors was conducted at CAPMAS in Cairo and locally in governorates for interviewers and field editors.
    3- Supervision program was implemented in all governorates to check the fieldwork.
    4- Data were collected by using personal interview method for household in dwelling and it had been obtained from the head of household or wife or any eligible person in case of their absence.
    5- Duties and responsibilities of all levels of field staff (interviewer, editor and supervisor) were defined to insure the accuracy and timing.

    Data processing

    Cleaning operations
    ---> Raw Data

    Office editing is one of the main stages of the survey. It started once the questionnaires were received from the field and accomplished by the selected work groups. It includes:
    a-Editing of coverage and completeness
    b-Editing of consistency


    ---> Harmonized Data

    - The SPSS package is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.
    - The harmonization process starts with a cleaning process for all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency.
    - All cleaned data files are then merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.
    - A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/ compute/ recode/ rename/ format/ label harmonized variables.
    - A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data.
    - Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and then converted to STATA, to be disseminated.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Economic Research Forum ERF www.erf.org.eg erfdataportal@erf.org.eg
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes To access the micro data, researchers are required to register on the ERF website and comply with the data access agreement.

    The data will be used only for scholarly research, or educational purposes. Users are prohibited from using data acquired from the Economic Research Forum in the pursuit of any commercial or private ventures.
    Access conditions
    Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions.
    Citation requirement
    The users should cite the Economic Research Forum and the Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics as follows:

    OAMDI, 2019. Harmonized Labor Force Surveys (HLFS), http://erf.org.eg/data-portal/. Version 1.0 of Licensed Data Files; LFS 2017- Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt: Economic Research Forum (ERF).

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer
    The Economic Research Forum and the Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics have granted the researcher access to relevant data following exhaustive efforts to protect the confidentiality of individual data. The researcher is solely responsible for any analysis or conclusions drawn from available data.
    Copyright
    (c) 2019, Economic Research Forum | (c) 2017, CAPMAS, Egypt

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Email URL
    Economic Research Forum (ERF) - 21 Al-Sad Al-Aaly St., Dokki, Giza, Egypt erfdataportal@erf.org.eg www.erf.org.eg

    Metadata production

    Document ID
    EGY_LFS_2017_HD_V1
    Producers
    Name Role
    Economic Research Forum Cleaning and harmonizing raw data received from the Statistical Agency
    Date of metadata production
    2019-05

    Metadata version

    Version
    Version 1
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