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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
Metadata
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Labor Force Status (3) (empchu)

Data file: lfs-s

Overview

Valid: 92384
Valid: 2031251.875
Invalid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 59
End: 59
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Labor Force Status (3)
Categories
Value Category
1 Full Employment
2 Unemployment
3 Outside of LF
4 Invisible Underemploy
5 Visible Underemploy
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
Invisible underemployment refers to a misapplication of labour resources or fundamental imbalance as between labour and other factors of production, such as insufficient income, underutilization, or bad conditions of the current work, or other economic reasons. In this survey, employed persons are classified as invisibly underemployed if they are not already classified as visibly underemployed; and want to change their jobs because of an insufficiency of income, or because they are working in an occupation which does not correspond to their qualification. Invisible underemployment:
Visible underemployment refers to insufficient volume of employment: persons worked less than 35 hours during the reference week or worked less than the normal hours of work in their occupation, and they are looking toward increasing their working hours through additional work or establishing their own business. Visible underemployment:
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