Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2019/2020

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2019 - 2020

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Reference ID

EGY_HIECS_2019_HD_V3.0

Producer(s)

Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics

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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets

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Labor force status in the current period (PCLFS)

Data file: Egypt19-IND-V3

Overview

Valid: 38869

Valid (weighted): 38568.992

Invalid: 6331

Invalid (weighted): 6333.837

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 149

End: 150

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V1681

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Active	14331	14283	37%
2	Inactive	24009	23787	61.7%
99	Not stated	529	499	1.3%
Sysmiss		6331	6334

Description

Definition

Current labour force status that distinguishes between the employed, the unemployed, and those not in the labour force.

Universe

All individuals aged 6+ years

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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Variable is constructed for all persons administered this module in each questionnaire. For this reason the lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
All persons are considered active in the labour force if they presently have a job (formal or informal, i.e. are employed) or do not have a job but are actively seeking work (i.e. unemployed).

Those unemployed and do not search for a job are considered inactive, hence their previous employment information, if they were ever active, is recoded missing.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Students reported in the relation to labor force variable (Q501) are "working" students as identified in the original variable, hence they were recoded active in the relationship to labor force and classified by work status, occupation, economic activity, and sector of employment as well.

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