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Labor Force Survey, LFS 2012

Egypt, 2012
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Reference ID
EGY_LFS_2012_HD_V1
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics
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May 31, 2016
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Employment stability in the main job of the head (EMPSTABHD)

Data file: Egypt 2012-LFS HH-V1

Overview

Valid: 61662
Invalid: 26662
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 210
End: 211
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Full time/Regular 49908
80.9%
2 Part time/Temporary 2347
3.8%
3 Seasonal/Irregular 9329
15.1%
99 Not stated 78
0.1%
Sysmiss 26662
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
These variables indicate whether the employed head is engaged in a regular or an irregular job
Universe
Employed Heads aged 6+
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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The original variable indicating the employment stability (crstabl) is not reported for those who are arranging to take up paid/self-employment activity, waiting for the start date of an agreed work or having unpaid leave for more than one year. Thus, the generated variable for those cases is recoded "not stated".
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