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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Total monthly wage from the regular main job (TOTWAG)

Data file: Egypt 2012-LFS IND-V1

Overview

Valid: 49744

Valid (weighted): 11322327.438

Invalid: 320546

Invalid (weighted): 71204479.733

Minimum: 2.083

Maximum: 50000

Mean: 1088.854

Mean (weighted): 1094.959

Standard deviation: 954.598

Standard deviation (weighted): 963.631

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 136

End: 143

Width: 8

Range: 2.08333333333333 - 50000

Format: Numeric

Weighted variable: V2099

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total monthly wage the employee receives from his/her main job.

Universe

Waged workers aged 6+

Source of information

Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)

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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

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The wages are provided either weekly, monthly or yearly in pounds.
The weekly wages were multiplied by 4 and the yearly wages were divided by 12 to generate a new variable indicating monthly wages

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