Labor Force Survey, LFS 2003

Palestine, 2003

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PAL_LFS_2003_HD_V1

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Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Total monthly wage from the regular main job of the first spouse (TOTWAGSP_1)

Data file: Palestine03-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 922

Invalid: 24566

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9640

Mean: 1658.001

Standard deviation: 991.685

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 215

End: 221

Width: 7

Range: 0 - 6354.80014038086

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the first spouse, reported waged worker, received from the main job, including bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.

Universe

Waged Workers Spouses 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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The value of the total wage reported in this variable should equal the value of the basic wage in addition to bonuses, benefits, allowances, profits, etc.
TOTWAG=BASWAG+ADDWAG+ALLWNC+BONUS+INCENTV+PROFIT+OTHEARN
When the original dataset has only wage categories, the total wage is calculated as the midpoint of the range provided.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Only daily wages in shekel are provided. The daily wages were multiplied by the number of paid working days during the month preceding the survey (pw25) to generate monthly wages.

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