DDI_WBG_1998_LFS-Q4_v01_M_WB
Development Data Group
2014-08-15
NADA
Version 01 (August 2014)
Labor Force Survey 1998
Fourth Quarter
LFS-Q4 1998
WBG_1998_LFS-Q4_v01_M
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
NADA
Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
The Labor Force Surveys constitute one of the basic statistical surveys that have been implemented by the PCBS since 1995, which includes a series of sample statistical surveys aimed to identify the reality of the Palestinian labor market. Such surveys also provide sufficient data essential for policy making and developing employment levels in the Palestinian Territory. In addition, this series aims to build a database that enables researchers, planners and decision makers to identify changes in the labor market from a year to another and carry out comparisons among similar seasons in different consecutive years.
Unemployment
Employment
Labour force
Underemployment
Occupation
Economic activity
The main objective of collecting data on the Palestinian Labour Force Survey 1998 (Fourth Quarter) including components of employment, unemployment and underemployment, is to provide basic information on the relative size and structure of the Palestinian labour force. Data collected at different points in time provide a basis for monitoring current trends and changes in the labour market and in employment. These data supported with information on other aspects of the economy provide a basis for the evaluation and analysis of macro-economic policies.
West Bank and Gaza
National
- Household
- Individual aged 10 years and above
Sample survey data [ssd]
The survey covered the following topics:
- Identification Information
- Quality Control
- Household Roster
- Employment
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Sampling Frame:
In the absence of a population census since 1967, the major task, with regard to constructing a master sample, was developing a sampling frame of suitable units covering the whole country. Such units have been used as the PSUs (Primary Sampling Units) in the first stage of selection. For the second stage of selection, all PSUs have been listed in the field at the household level. This provided a sampling frame for selecting the households.
Sample Design:
The sample is a two-stage stratified cluster random sample.
Target Population:
All Palestinians aged 15 years and above living in the Palestinian Territories, excluding nomads and persons living in institutions such as prisons or shelters.
Stratification:
Four levels of stratification were made:
1. Stratification by District.
2. Stratification by place of residence which comprises:
(a) Municipalities; (b) Villages; and (c) Refugee Camps
3. Stratification by size of locality.
4. Stratification by cell identification by locality.
Sampling Unit:
First stage sampling units are the area units (Cells) in the master sample. The second stage sampling units are households.
Sample Size:
The sample size in the the eleventh round/ fourth quarter (October 1998 - December 1998) about 7,631 households (23,045 persons of working age).
Target cluster size:
The next important issue in sample design is the target cluster size or "sample-take," the number of households to be selected per PSU on the average. In this survey persons of working age had been selected from 480 master sample areas. Therefore, the sample take was around 16 households.
Sample Rotation:
Each round covered all the 480 master sample areas (except for the first round which covers 5/6 of these, i.e. 480 areas with proportionately increased sample-take per cluster so as to keep the same sample size). Basically, the areas remained fixed over time, but within each area a proportion of the households was replaced each round. During the first phase when the survey was conducted at 6- monthly interval or quarterly surveys were introduced, the same households remain in the sample over 6 consecutive rounds. A high overlap of 5¤6 is then achieved between consecutive rounds (making the sample efficient for monitoring trends), reducing linearly to zero overlap after 6 rounds. In each round, 1 6 (i.e. 80) clusters are listed - i.e. 320 over the whole year as before.
Face-to-face [f2f]
The survey questionnaire was designed according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) recommendations. The questionnaire includes four main parts:
1. Identification Data:
The main objective for this part is to record the necessary information to identify the household, such as, cluster code, sector, type of locality, cell, housing number and the cell code.
2. Quality Control:
This part involves groups of controlling standards to monitor the field and office operation, to keep in order the sequence of questionnaire stages (data collection, field and office coding, data entry, editing after entry and store the data).
3. Household Roster:
This part involves demographic characteristics about the household, like number of persons in the household, date of birth, sex, educational level.etc.
4. Employment Part:
This part involves the major research indicators, where one questionnaire had been answered by every 15 years and over household member, to be able to explore their labour force status and recognize their major characteristics toward employment status, economic activity, occupation, place of work, and other employment indicators.
Training and Recruitment:
The purpose of the training courses were to provide participants with the main skills needed to conduct interviews. Two training courses were held, one in Ramallah for West Bank trainees, and one in Gaza City for Gaza Strip trainees. Each course consisted of two parts: one on survey methodology including survey design, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, and field operations; and one part on the specifications of the labour force survey, including concepts and definitions, field work procedures, data collection, editing, coding, tips for asking questions and recording answers, as well as field team organization and field supervision.
The training courses included lectures, exercises, as well as field exercises. Each course continued for 3 days, trained in which 14 interviewers, and 4 supervisors.
Fieldwork:
The West Bank was divided into three regions (North, Middle, South), each of which was supervised by one field supervisor. Each region consists of a number of districts and field work was carried out by one field work team, consisted of 2 interviewers. Gaza Strip was also divided into three regions (North, Middle and South). Field work activities were initiated in Gaza Strip by one field work team, each of which consisted of a supervisor, an editor and 4 interviewers.
Certain procedures were followed for quality control and efficient organization of field work. Such procedures pertain for supervising work as well as receiving and delivering questionnaires, maps, sample lists in addition to other forms used for management and quality control.
Field operations started in the Palestinian Territories on 10/04/1998 till 10/07/1998. Field work teams were distributed among all districts on the basis of sample size in each district. The number of LFS' field work members amounted to 24 including the field work coordinator, 4 supervisors, 4 editors, and 14 interviewers including coders.
Reference Week:
The week ending on Friday preceding the interviewer's visit to the household. Four quarters had been carried out at 1998, first quarter covered the period (January - March), and second quarter (April - June), and third quarter covered the period (July - September), and the fourth quarter covered the period (October - December).
Weights Calculation of households:
The weight of statistical units (sampling units) in the sample is defined as the mathematical inverse of the selection probability where the sample of the survey is a two-stage stratified cluster sample. Thus, in the first stage we calculate the weight of enumeration areas depending on the probability of each enumeration area (a systematic random sample). In the second stage we calculate the weight of households in each enumeration area. Initial household weights resulted from the product of the weight of the first stage and the weight of the second stage. Final household weights were obtained after adjustment of initial weights with the household estimates of the middle of each quarter of 1998 with regard to design strata (governorate, locality type).
For individuals over 10 years, we added the final household weight for each person, then adjusted the initial individual weight with the estimates of individuals of the middle of each quarter of 1998 according to region (West Bank, Gaza Strip), sex ( male, female), five - year age groups (14 groups), then we obtained the final adjusted individual weight.
- Response rate in the fourth quarter was 86.4%
Data compiled in the context of labor force surveys involve individual and personal data. The confidentiality of such data is honored and safeguarded in accordance with Article (17) of the Palestinian General Statistical Law of 2000, which stipulates “All individual information and data submitted to the Bureau for statistical purposes shall be treated as confidential and shall not be divulged, in whole or in part, to any individual or to a public or private body, or used for any purpose other than for preparing statistical tables”.
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
q4-98s
Labour force data that was collected using 1998 Fourth Quarter LFS questionnaire.
23043
45
Household number
Household number
Household number
Household number
Household number
23043
660121
1224311
Person serial no.from the hosehold roster
Person serial no.from the hosehold roster
Person serial no.from the hosehold roster
Person serial no.from the hosehold roster
Person serial no.from the hosehold roster
23043
1
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
29
30
31
Sex
Sex
Sex
Sex
Sex
23043
1
Male
2
Female
Age at last birthday
Age at last birthday
Age at last birthday
Age at last birthday
Age at last birthday
23043
15
107
Currently attending school
Currently attending school
Currently attending school
Currently attending school
Currently attending school
23043
1
Yes
2
No
Years of schooling
Years of schooling
Years of schooling
Years of schooling
Years of schooling
23043
26
Educational level
Educational level
Educational level
Educational level
Educational level
23043
1
None
2
Elementary
3
Preparatory
4
Secondary
5
Tawjihi
6
Diploma
7
B.Sc.or more
Worked for wage in any kind of job including casual activities even for one hour
Worked for wage in any kind of job including casual activities even for one hour
Worked for wage in any kind of job including casual activities even for one hour
Worked for wage in any kind of job including casual activities even for one hour
Worked for wage in any kind of job including casual activities even for one hour
23043
1
Yes
2
No-disable or abroad
3
Detained
4
No
Assisted in any work inculding casual activities even if you did not work last week
Assisted in any work inculding casual activities even if you did not work last week
Assisted in any work inculding casual activities even if you did not work last week
Assisted in any work inculding casual activities even if you did not work last week
Assisted in any work inculding casual activities even if you did not work last week
15001
8042
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Have any work or enterprise for which you were absent last week
Have any work or enterprise for which you were absent last week
Have any work or enterprise for which you were absent last week
Have any work or enterprise for which you were absent last week
Have any work or enterprise for which you were absent last week
14535
8508
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Reason for being absent from work last week
Reason for being absent from work last week
Reason for being absent from work last week
Reason for being absent from work last week
Reason for being absent from work last week
231
22812
1
Ill
2
Vacation
3
Strike, curfew
4
Closure (with permit and with payment)
5
Temporary stoppage
6
Other
Sysmiss
Have any other job
Have any other job
Have any other job
Have any other job
Have any other job
8071
14972
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Number of hours worked in all jobs last week
Number of hours worked in all jobs last week
Number of hours worked in all jobs last week
Number of hours worked in all jobs last week
Number of hours worked in all jobs last week
8302
14741
99
Reason for number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours
Reason for number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours
Reason for number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours
Reason for number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours
Reason for number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours
995
22048
1
Personal reasons (ill, vacation,...)
2
No wish to work more
3
Nature of work
4
Strike/ closure
5
Could not find additional work
6
Others
Sysmiss
Wanted to change job or to get additional work last week
Wanted to change job or to get additional work last week
Wanted to change job or to get additional work last week
Wanted to change job or to get additional work last week
Wanted to change job or to get additional work last week
8302
14741
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Reason for wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for wanted to change job or to get addtional work
501
22542
1
Insufficient income
2
Occupation is not suitable
3
Bad conditions
4
Place of work is far
5
Others
Sysmiss
Reason for not wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for not wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for not wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for not wanted to change job or to get addtional work
Reason for not wanted to change job or to get addtional work
7801
15242
1
Good work
2
Studying, training
3
Home duties
4
Old, ill
5
Others
Sysmiss
Available for work last week
Available for work last week
Available for work last week
Available for work last week
Available for work last week
14304
8739
1
Yes
2
No-old, ill
3
No, student
4
No-home duties
5
No-others
Sysmiss
Any reason prevented from getting job that was offered in last week
Any reason prevented from getting job that was offered in last week
Any reason prevented from getting job that was offered in last week
Any reason prevented from getting job that was offered in last week
Any reason prevented from getting job that was offered in last week
1290
21753
1
No
2
Yes - student
3
Yes - home duties
4
Yes - old, ill
5
Yes - others
Sysmiss
How long available and able to work
How long available and able to work
How long available and able to work
How long available and able to work
How long available and able to work
1252
21791
144
Was seeking a job last week
Was seeking a job last week
Was seeking a job last week
Was seeking a job last week
Was seeking a job last week
1252
21791
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Steps taken to get job
Steps taken to get job
Steps taken to get job
Steps taken to get job
Steps taken to get job
996
22047
1
Asked friends
2
Read newspaper
3
Application to employers
4
Labor exchange
5
Others
6
Did nothing
Sysmiss
Reason for not seeking job last week
Reason for not seeking job last week
Reason for not seeking job last week
Reason for not seeking job last week
Reason for not seeking job last week
258
22785
1
Old,ill
2
Studying,training
3
Home duties
4
Found/established a job which starts later
5
Waiting results from previous job/applications
6
Waiting seasonal work
7
No permit/possibility to find work
8
Others
Sysmiss
Ever work in the past for at least two weeks regularly
Ever work in the past for at least two weeks regularly
Ever work in the past for at least two weeks regularly
Ever work in the past for at least two weeks regularly
Ever work in the past for at least two weeks regularly
14741
8302
1
Yes, in the last 12 months
2
Yes, 1-5 years ago
3
Yes, more than 5 years ago
4
No
Sysmiss
Place of work for main current/ previous job
Place of work for main current/ previous job
Place of work for main current/ previous job
Place of work for main current/ previous job
Place of work for main current/ previous job
9796
13247
1
West Bank
2
Gaza Strip
3
Settelments
4
Israel
5
Gulf Countries
6
Other Countries
Sysmiss
Industry
Industry
Industry
Industry
Industry
9796
13247
1
99
1
2
5
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
24
25
26
27
28
29
31
32
33
34
36
40
41
45
50
51
52
55
60
62
63
64
65
66
70
71
72
73
74
75
80
85
90
91
92
93
95
99
Sysmiss
Occupation
Occupation
Occupation
Occupation
Occupation
9796
13247
11
99
11
12
13
21
22
23
24
31
32
33
34
41
42
51
52
61
62
71
72
73
74
81
82
83
91
92
93
99
Sysmiss
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
9796
13247
1
Employer(employs others)
2
On own account
3
Unpaid family member
4
Employee/Government
5
Employee/UNRWA
6
Employee/Nonprofit Organization
7
Regular employee/private sector
8
Irregular employee/private sector
9
Others
Sysmiss
How long at this work
How long at this work
How long at this work
How long at this work
How long at this work
5374
17669
960
Number of days worked for wage last month
Number of days worked for wage last month
Number of days worked for wage last month
Number of days worked for wage last month
Number of days worked for wage last month
5374
17669
31
District
District
District
District
District
23043
10
Jenin
20
Tulkarm
25
Qalqilya
30
Nablus
40
Ramallah
50
Jerusalem
60
Jericho
70
Bethlehem
80
Hebron
90
Gaza Strip-North
91
Gaza
92
Gaza Strip-Middle
93
Gaza Strip-South
Locality type
Locality type
Locality type
Locality type
Locality type
23043
1
City
2
Village
3
Camp
Employment characteristics
Employment characteristics
Employment characteristics
Employment characteristics
Employment characteristics
23043
1
Employment
2
Unemployment
3
Outside of labour force
in/out of labour force
in/out of labour force
in/out of labour force
in/out of labour force
in/out of labour force
23043
1
In labour force
2
Out labour force
Employment characteristics - more
Employment characteristics - more
Employment characteristics - more
Employment characteristics - more
Employment characteristics - more
23043
1
Full employment
2
Unemployment
3
Outside of labour force
4
Visible underemployment
5
Invisible underemployment
Employment characteristics - final
Employment characteristics - final
Employment characteristics - final
Employment characteristics - final
Employment characteristics - final
23043
1
Full employment
2
Underemployment
3
Unemployment
4
Outside of labour force
West Bank/ Gaza Strip
West Bank/ Gaza Strip
West Bank/ Gaza Strip
West Bank/ Gaza Strip
West Bank/ Gaza Strip
23043
1
West Bank
2
Gaza Strip
Reason of outside labour force
Reason of outside labour force
Reason of outside labour force
Reason of outside labour force
Reason of outside labour force
13543
9500
1
Old/ill
2
Home making/ duties
3
Studying
4
Others
Sysmiss
Marital status
Marital status
Marital status
Marital status
Marital status
23043
1
Never married
2
Married
3
Others
Place of work
Place of work
Place of work
Place of work
Place of work
9796
13247
1
West Bank
2
Gaza Strip
3
Isreal
4
Others
Sysmiss
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
Employment status
9796
13247
1
Employer (employs others)
2
Self employed
3
Wage employees
4
Unpaid family members
Sysmiss
Industry group
Industry group
Industry group
Industry group
Industry group
23043
1
Agriculture
2
Manufacturing
3
Construction
4
Commerce, hotels and restaurants
5
Transport, storage and communication
6
Services
Occupation group
Occupation group
Occupation group
Occupation group
Occupation group
23043
1
Legislators, senior officials and managers
2
Professionals, technical, associate and clerks
3
Service, shop and market workers
4
Skilled agricultural & fishery workers
5
Craft and related trade workers
6
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
7
Elementary occupations
Daily wage
Daily wage
Daily wage
Daily wage
Daily wage
5251
17792
595
Weight
Weight
Weight
Weight
Weight
23043
0.74
3.49