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Labor Force Survey 2005

West Bank and Gaza, 2005
Reference ID
WBG_2005_LFS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Labor Force Status (1) (empch)

Data file: lfs-s

Overview

Valid: 92384
Valid: 2031251.875
Invalid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 57
End: 57
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Labor Force Status (1)
Categories
Value Category
1 Employment
2 Unemployment
3 Outside of LF
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
Labour force:
The economically active population (Labour Force) consists of all persons 15 years and over
who are either employed or unemployed as defined over at the time of survey.
Universe
The survey covered all the Palestinian households who are a usual residence in the Palestinian Territory

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
It includes all employed persons who are at working age and working like employer, ownaccount worker, employee and unpaid family member. Employment:
Unemployed persons are those individuals 15 years and over who did not work at all during the reference week, who were not absent from a job and were available for work and actively seeking a job during the reference week. Persons who work in Israel and were absent from work due to closure are considered unemployed, and also those persons never work and not looking for work but waiting to return back to their works in Israel and Settlements. Unemployed
The population not economically active comprises all persons 15 years and over, who were neither employed nor unemployed accordingly to the definitions over and they are classified according the reason into those classes: Persons outside labour force:
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