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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2004

Palestine, 2004 - 2005
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PAL_PECS_2004_HD_V2.0
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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Occupation classification for the main job [Standardized version] (POCC)

Data file: Palestine04-IND-V2

Overview

Valid: 5173
Valid (weighted): 5136.123
Invalid: 15412
Invalid (weighted): 15439.511
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 133
End: 135
Width: 3
Range: 10 - 999
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2403

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
10 Legislators, senior officials and managers 114 125
2.4%
20 Professionals 0 0
0%
30 Technicians and associate professionals 0 0
0%
40 Clerks 0 0
0%
45 Professionals, Technicians and associate professionals, and 1050 999
19.5%
50 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 815 811
15.8%
60 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 808 718
14%
70 Craft and related trades workers 1022 1109
21.6%
80 Plant and machine operators, and assemblers 377 407
7.9%
90 Elementary occupations 987 966
18.8%
100 Armed forces 0 0
0%
998 Other/unspecified 0 0
0%
999 Not stated 0 0
0%
Sysmiss 15412 15440
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, with as much detail as possible (ideally 4-digit ISCO-88/08 if available in original survey).
Universe
Ever-employed Active individuals aged 10+ 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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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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Main occupations provided are already aggregated and they are not following the international classifications used for harmonization, hence some occupations are grouped and cannot be split (Ex: technicians and professionals are already grouped with clerks in the original data received while the international classification tend always to differentiate between different occupations).
In order not to drop the variable, the provided grouping was used, 2-digit coding was applied and labels were adjusted for this data set; giving the aggregated categories an exceptional code following all the codes of actual categories (Ex: professionals, technicians and clerks will be coded 45 following the codes 20, 30 and 40)
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