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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2025

Palestine, 2025 - 2026
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PAL_LFS_2025_HD_V1
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Occupation classification of the main job of the head [ISCO 2008-2 digits] (OCCHD_ISCO08_2)

Data file: Palestine25-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 9024
Invalid: 8461
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 75
End: 78
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Commissioned armed forces officers 428
4.7%
2 Non-commissioned armed forces officers 116
1.3%
3 Armed forces occupations, other ranks 13
0.1%
11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 127
1.4%
12 Administrative and commercial managers 105
1.2%
13 Production and specialized services managers 211
2.3%
14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 38
0.4%
21 Science and engineering professionals 91
1%
22 Health professionals 170
1.9%
23 Teaching professionals 392
4.3%
24 Business and administration professionals 145
1.6%
25 Information and communications technology professionals 35
0.4%
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 127
1.4%
31 Science and engineering associate professionals 66
0.7%
32 Health associate professionals 31
0.3%
33 Business and administration associate professionals 167
1.9%
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 38
0.4%
35 Information and communications technicians 9
0.1%
41 General and keyboard clerks 37
0.4%
42 Customer services clerks 39
0.4%
43 Numerical and material recording clerks 7
0.1%
44 Other clerical support workers 6
0.1%
51 Personal service workers 224
2.5%
52 Sales workers 1106
12.3%
53 Personal care workers 11
0.1%
54 Protective services workers 132
1.5%
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers 479
5.3%
62 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting worker 1
0%
63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 16
0.2%
71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 943
10.4%
72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 456
5.1%
73 Handicraft and printing workers 21
0.2%
74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 217
2.4%
75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and r 437
4.8%
81 Stationary plant and machine operators 278
3.1%
82 Assemblers 6
0.1%
83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 945
10.5%
91 Cleaners and helpers 246
2.7%
92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery laborers 253
2.8%
93 Laborers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transpor 560
6.2%
94 Food preparation assistants 72
0.8%
95 Street and related sales and service workers 11
0.1%
96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 209
2.3%
9998 Unspecified code 0
0%
9999 Not stated 3
0%
Sysmiss 8461
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
Occupation classification of the main job of the head, following the 2-digits International Standard Classification of Occupations for the year 2008 (ISCO-08).
Universe
Employed Heads aged 10+
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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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For those employed but temporary unpaid because of waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D=132), all main job characteristics were recoded "not stated" since they did not effectively start working.
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