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Labor Market Panel Survey, JLMPS 2025

Jordan, 2025
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    Survey ID
    JOR_JLMPS_2025_V1.16
    Title
    Labor Market Panel Survey, JLMPS 2025
    Abbreviation or acronym
    JLMPS 2025
    Country
    Name Country code
    Jordan JOR
    Study type
    Labor Market Panel Surveys [hh/LMPS]
    Series information
    The Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS) has carried out the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS) during the years 2010, 2016, and 2025. The series also includes five waves in Egypt (ELMPS 1998, 2006, 2012, 2018 and 2023), one wave in Tunisia (TLMPS 2014) and one wave in Sudan (SLMPS 2022).
    Abstract
    As part of its series of comprehensive labor market panel surveys, the Economic Research Forum (ERF) had conducted a survey in Jordan in 2010, the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey of 2010 (JLMPS 2010), followed by a new wave after six years (JLMPS 2016). The JLMPS 2025 thus comes at an opportune time to allow for an in-depth assessment of critical social and economic developments in Jordan's recent history.
    The JLMPS is part of a series of labor market panel surveys carried out by ERF in several Arab countries since 1998 and whose microdata are available for public use through the ERF data portal. These surveys have, so far, been carried out in Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012, 2018, 2023), Jordan (2010, 2016, 2025), Tunisia (2014), and Sudan (2022). The ERF Labor Market Panel Surveys (LMPSs) are carried out in cooperation with the national statistical office of each country. Accordingly, the JLMPS 2025 was carried out in cooperation with the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DoS), which had preserved the personally identifiable information (PII) of the sample from the previous wave, supplied a refresher sample based on the design provided by ERF researchers, and implemented all data collection activities using tablets.
    As part of a longitudinal survey, the 2025 wave of JLMPS was designed to follow an existing population over time. However, the 2025 wave was also designed to capture the implications of the large refugee and migrant worker populations in Jordan. To this end, the survey design team decided to add a large refresher sample of approximately 3,000 households that over-sampled neighborhoods in Jordan that had high proportions of non-Jordanian households, including refugee camps, as ascertained by the 2015 Population Census.
    This third wave of the JLMPS questionnaire builds on the questionnaires used in previous waves, which will facilitate data comparability. The JLMPS 2025 covers topics such as parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women's decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. The JLMPS 2025 also provides information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, and specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. Specific questions on the green economy, the digital/gig economy, and skills were added for 2025, which have important labor market and policy implications for Jordan. A full 24-hour time use diary for adolescents and adults aged ten and older is included in the time use module, in addition to a shorter summary version for children aged 6 to 9.
    In addition to the survey's panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and universities attended at various stages of an individual's trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.

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    For more information on the JLMPS series, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
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    We acknowledge the financial support of the European Union, the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the EU-Madad funded project 'Towards an inclusive national social protection system and accelerating decent job opportunities for Syrians and vulnerable Jordanians,' the World Bank, UNICEF, UN Women, and the International Growth Centre (IGC).
    Kind of data
    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of analysis
    1- Households.
    2- Individuals.
    3- Household Enterprises.

    Version

    Version
    V1.16: this version includes the following data files :
    ==================================
    1) Cross-section (xs) data for 2025.
    2) Repeated cross section for 2010, 2016, 2025
    3) Panel data
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    Version date
    2026-03

    Scope

    Notes
    The topics covered by the survey included:

    *topics such as parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women's decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys.

    *ِAlso provides information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, and specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. Specific questions on the green economy, the digital/gig economy, and skills were added for 2025, which have important labor market and policy implications for Jordan.

    *A full 24-hour time use diary for adolescents and adults aged ten and older is included in the time use module, in addition to a shorter summary version for children aged 6 to 9.

    In addition to the survey's panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and universities attended at various stages of an individual's trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Labor Force ERF
    Employment Characteristics ERF
    Unemployment ERF
    Education ERF
    Wages and Earnings ERF
    Job dynamics ERF
    Parents Educational and Employment Characteristics ERF
    Marriage and Fertility ERF
    Empowerment ERF
    Enterprises ERF
    Residential Mobility ERF
    Time Use ERF
    Migration & Remittances ERF
    Social Protection (includes Pensions, Safety Nets, Social Funds) ERF

    Coverage

    Geographic coverage
    The sample was designed to provide estimates of the indicators at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for all regions.
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    For detailed information on the JLMPS 2025 sample, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
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    Universe
    The survey covered a national sample of households and all household members, with individual questionnaires for members aged 6 and above, as well as information on enterprises operated by the household.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Economic Research Forum
    Producers
    Name
    Department of Statistics
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation
    The International Labour Organization (ILO) through the EU-Madad funded project ‘Towards an inclusive national social protection system and accelerating decent job opportunities for Syrians and vulnerable Jordanians’ ILO
    World Bank WB
    United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF
    United Nations Programme for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women UN Women
    International Growth Centre IGC

    Sampling

    Sampling procedure
    The sample for the JLMPS 2025 includes two components: panel households (made up of 4,849 original households and 1,916 split households) and a refresher sample of 3,119 households.

    There were 23,493 individuals who were members of a household in 2016 where the household was found in 2025. Among these, 81.7% were still in their 2016 household. A sizeable fraction of individuals who were no longer in their original household experienced natural attrition (5.3%), including deaths (3.1%), emigrating (2.1%), or moving to group housing (0.1%).
    There were therefore 3,044 individuals who split from their 2016 households (13.0%), but remained in the sample frame. These individuals could have potentially moved together, e.g., a man and his wife who had been living with his parents while he built a house finish their house and move into it, splitting from their 2016 household but moving together. We capture those individuals who split together in the tracking information, so we know that there are 2,720 potential split households to be found. Of these, 1,916 (70.4% of split households) were found. The 29.6% of split households that were not found is referred to as Type II attrition. This rate is much lower than the 50.5% obtained in JLMPS 2016.

    The refresher sample for 2025 followed a similar design to the 2016 wave (Krafft and Assaad 2021). The refresher sample was designed to sample 3,000 households, divided into 200 primary sampling units (PSUs) from which 15 households each were drawn. As in 2016, strata were defined based on "high" versus "low" shares of the population that was non-Jordanian. Specifically, using 2015 population census data, the proportion of households headed by a non-Jordanian head at the neighborhood (hayy, sixth level of administrative geography in Jordan) was calculated.

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    For detailed information on the JLMPS 2025 sample, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
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    Weighting
    In order to ensure the sample represents the population of Jordan, accounting for attrition, the panel design, and the refresher design, sample weights are generated. The general approach to weighting is as in Krafft and Assaad (2021), which discusses the 2016 weights. Here we detail the weights for panel and split households, weights for the refresher sample, and combined weights.
    Weights for the panel sample and split households are initially constructed at the household level. The Type I and Type II attrition models are essential inputs into these weights as they are used to estimate the probability of attrition for remaining original and split households as a function of their observable characteristics.

    Refresher sample weights are calculated both as a component of the overall sample weights and as stand-alone weights that can be used to cross-validate the overall sample (since the refresher does not suffer from the panel's issues with attrition). Weights are initially calculated on a household level. The starting point of the refresher weights is the PSU response rate.
    Because the refresher sample was based on a listing of the PSU, although the time interval between listing and fielding was short, households may have moved or relocated. We therefore consider refresher non-response to be refusals or inability to reach the household, but exclude from these calculations the cases where the household left the country in its entirety or where all members died. DoS attempted 3,250 households and actually completed 3,119 households when 3,000 were planned.
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    For detailed information on the JLMPS 2025 weights, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
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    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires
    Certain data are collected at the household level. The individual roster captures data on all members of the household, including specific questions about childcare for those under age six. An individual questionnaire for those six and older covers a variety of topics at the individual level. Ideally the individual her or himself answers the questionnaire; a proxy respondent is allowed only if the individual him or herself is incapable of answering on the first visit, or if three visits are attempted and the individual is still not available, a proxy is allowed.

    The household modules have remained largely the same from 2016 to 2025, with the exception of a new “shocks and coping” section. A version of this module first appeared in the ELMPS 2018, along with the SLMPS 2022 and ELMPS 2023. However, some household modules have been appreciably updated. For instance, the “other sources of income” section was updated to reflect a number of new social assistance programs that were implemented between 2016 and 2025. Other key policy areas have been incorporated, for instance new policies around childcare subsidies.

    There are several new modules at the individual level in 2025 that were not present in previous waves of the JLMPS, but which originated in the SLMPS 2022. This includes a “training experiences” section, which captures the details of training experiences outside of the course of regular education, including apprenticeships, internships, non-school courses, non-school training programs, non-formal education, and employer-provided trainings. A new section on skills assesses what soft and hard skills individuals have; this section is essential for assessing skill supply and also mismatch, as it is comparable to questions in the job characteristics module where employed workers report the skill requirements of their jobs. Although some questions about subsistence and time use in domestic activity were asked in previous JLMPSs, in 2025 a full 24-hour time use diary was added for those aged 10+ (and a shorter set of activity questions for children 6-9).

    Within modules, a number of updates were incorporated in 2025. For example, green job detection questions first implemented in ELMPS 2023 were include in the JLMPS 2025. Given the very low rates of female labor force participation and gender norms that constrain women's employment in Jordan, the section on gender attitudes has been substantially updated to assess gender role attitudes specifically about women's employment. Other questions were added to reflect current economic or policy issues. For instance, questions on platform (gig) work and questions relating to electronic payments and e-wallets were incorporated, along with questions about different (new) types of work permits for refugees and other non-Jordanians.

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    For detailed information on the JLMPS 2025 questionnaires, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
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    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2025-01-24 2025-05-05
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Abbreviation
    Department of Statistics - Jordan DOS
    Notes on data collection
    Data were collected on tablets using the CSPro (to be fielded on tablets using CSEntry). A training of the trainers (ToT) was held from September 1 to 5, 2024 at DoS, covering the full questionnaire and field logistics, as well as preparations for the enumerator training. A subsequent pilot data collection effort was held to test the questionnaires and programming, with updates based on pilot experiences. the enumerators training took place December 15, 2024-January 5, 2025. The training participants included 84 enumerators, 28 supervisors, and 10 staff members from the three regional offices. Fieldwork was undertaken by governorate-specific teams of enumerators with 3-5 enumerators and one supervisor. All the enumerators were women.

    Throughout fieldwork, quality control took place, mostly in person by separate quality control teams, with some quality control over the phone in governorates where that week's quality control sample was less than 3 households. Quality control took place on randomly selected modules, including for all individuals if random modules were from the individual questionnaire.

    ================================================================================
    For detailed information on the JLMPS 2025 data collection, see:
    Krafft, Caroline, Ragui Assaad, and Sara Ragab. 2026. “Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025.” Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series (Forthcoming).
    =======================================================================

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Economic Research Forum 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 Jordanian Department of Statistics as follows:

    OAMDI, 2026. Labor Market Panel Surveys (LMPS), http://erf.org.eg/data-portal/. Version 1.16 of Licensed Data Files; JLMPS 2025- Department of Statistics (DOS),The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Egypt: Economic Research Forum (ERF)

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer
    The Economic Research Forum and the Jordanian Department of Statisticss 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) 2026, Economic Research Forum

    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
    JOR_JLMPS_2025_V1.16
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation
    Economic Research Forum ERF
    Date of metadata production
    2026-03

    Metadata version

    Version
    Version 1.16
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