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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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Economic activity classification of the main job of the head [ISIC Rev.4-2 digits] (INDHD_ISIC4_2)

Data file: Palestine25-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 9024
Invalid: 8461
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 82
End: 85
Width: 4
Range: 1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service acti 773
8.6%
2 Forestry and logging 0
0%
3 Fishing and aquaculture 1
0%
5 Mining of coal and lignite 0
0%
6 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas 0
0%
7 Mining of metal ores 0
0%
8 Other mining and quarrying 36
0.4%
9 Mining support service activities 2
0%
10 Manufacture of food products 295
3.3%
11 Manufacture of beverages 12
0.1%
12 Manufacture of tobacco products 2
0%
13 Manufacture of textiles 22
0.2%
14 Manufacture of wearing apparel 72
0.8%
15 Manufacture of leather and related products 18
0.2%
16 Manufacture of wood/cork and its products, except furniture; 24
0.3%
17 Manufacture of paper and paper products 7
0.1%
18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media 22
0.2%
19 Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products 7
0.1%
20 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products 30
0.3%
21 Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceuti 18
0.2%
22 Manufacture of rubber and plastics products 41
0.5%
23 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products 236
2.6%
24 Manufacture of basic metals 39
0.4%
25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery a 240
2.7%
26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 3
0%
27 Manufacture of electrical equipment 2
0%
28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. 9
0.1%
29 Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 3
0%
30 Manufacture of other transport equipment 2
0%
31 Manufacture of furniture 236
2.6%
32 Other manufacturing 11
0.1%
33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 17
0.2%
35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 33
0.4%
36 Water collection, treatment and supply 15
0.2%
37 Sewerage 3
0%
38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materia 19
0.2%
39 Remediation activities and other waste management services 0
0%
41 Construction of buildings 633
7%
42 Civil engineering 45
0.5%
43 Specialized construction activities 758
8.4%
45 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and 363
4%
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles 271
3%
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles 1101
12.2%
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines 610
6.8%
50 Water transport 0
0%
51 Air transport 0
0%
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation 18
0.2%
53 Postal and courier activities 13
0.1%
55 Accommodation 39
0.4%
56 Food and beverage service activities 228
2.5%
58 Publishing activities 10
0.1%
59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sou 0
0%
60 Programming and broadcasting activities 8
0.1%
61 Telecommunications 21
0.2%
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities 26
0.3%
63 Information service activities 10
0.1%
64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension f 59
0.7%
65 Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsor 14
0.2%
66 Activities auxiliary to financial service and insurance acti 7
0.1%
68 Real estate activities 10
0.1%
69 Legal and accounting activities 40
0.4%
70 Activities of head offices; management consultancy activitie 4
0%
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing 30
0.3%
72 Scientific research and development 4
0%
73 Advertising and market research 2
0%
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities 13
0.1%
75 Veterinary activities 0
0%
77 Rental and leasing activities 6
0.1%
78 Employment activities 1
0%
79 Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service and relate 6
0.1%
80 Security and investigation activities 7
0.1%
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities 37
0.4%
82 Office administrative, office support and other business sup 11
0.1%
84 Public administration and defense; compulsory social securit 1153
12.8%
85 Education 686
7.6%
86 Human health activities 256
2.8%
87 Residential care activities 7
0.1%
88 Social work activities without accommodation 14
0.2%
90 Creative, arts and entertainment activities 2
0%
91 Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities 3
0%
92 Gambling and betting activities 0
0%
93 Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities 14
0.2%
94 Activities of membership organizations 61
0.7%
95 Repair of computers and personal and household goods 35
0.4%
96 Other personal service activities 86
1%
97 Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel 1
0%
98 Undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of 1
0%
99 Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies 47
0.5%
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
Economic activity classification of the main job of the head [ISIC Rev.3-2 digits]
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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