Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey, HIECS 2021/2022
Egypt, Arab Rep., 2021 - 2022
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EGY_HIECS_2021_HD_V3.0
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Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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Occupation classification for the main job of the head [Standardized version] (OCCHD)
Data file: Egypt21-HH-V3
Overview
Valid:
8924
Invalid:
3539
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
806
End:
808
Width:
3
Range:
10 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Legislators, senior officials and managers | 921 |
10.3%
|
| 20 | Professionals | 805 |
9%
|
| 30 | Technicians and associate professionals | 612 |
6.9%
|
| 40 | Clerks | 473 |
5.3%
|
| 50 | Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 1819 |
20.4%
|
| 60 | Skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 1119 |
12.5%
|
| 70 | Craft and related trades workers | 1542 |
17.3%
|
| 80 | Plant and machine operators, and assemblers | 1205 |
13.5%
|
| 90 | Elementary occupations | 393 |
4.4%
|
| 100 | Armed forces | 0 |
0%
|
| 998 | Other/unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| 999 | Not stated | 35 |
0.4%
|
| Sysmiss | 3539 |
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
International Standard Occupational classification of the main (current or last held) job of the head
Universe
Ever-employed Active heads aged 6+ years
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Imputation and derivation
Coder instructions
Original survey variable renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)
Others
Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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The lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
Classifies the main job of any individual with a job (EMPLOYED=1) and is missing otherwise. As most surveys collected detailed information and then coded it using national classifications, and the original data is not in the data bases, no attempt has been made to correct or check the original coding.
The variable should generally cover the active sample (employed and unemployed if previously employed).
While for Unemployed never previously employed, the variable was coded missing.
Active sample reported as "not stated (code 999)" should normally include employed for whom the status was not identified and unemployed previously employed if status in last job is not reported.
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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Q509 indicates the occupation in the main job for those employed at the time of the survey, while Q520 indicates the occupation in the last held job for those reported as unemployed ever worked.
Ever employed individuals were identified using Q513 in the raw data, indicating if the individual has ever been employed for a period of 6 continuous months or more.
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The lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
Classifies the main job of any individual with a job (EMPLOYED=1) and is missing otherwise. As most surveys collected detailed information and then coded it using national classifications, and the original data is not in the data bases, no attempt has been made to correct or check the original coding.
The variable should generally cover the active sample (employed and unemployed if previously employed).
While for Unemployed never previously employed, the variable was coded missing.
Active sample reported as "not stated (code 999)" should normally include employed for whom the status was not identified and unemployed previously employed if status in last job is not reported.
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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Q509 indicates the occupation in the main job for those employed at the time of the survey, while Q520 indicates the occupation in the last held job for those reported as unemployed ever worked.
Ever employed individuals were identified using Q513 in the raw data, indicating if the individual has ever been employed for a period of 6 continuous months or more.