Labor Force Survey 2015
West Bank and Gaza, 2015
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PSE-PCBS-LFS-2015-V1.0
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What was the main reason you did not seek work or try to start a business in the last four weeks (PW18)
Data file: yearly 2015
Overview
Valid:
61564
Invalid:
37298
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 19
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What was the main reason you did not seek work or try to start a business in the last four weeks
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting news from employer | 154 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Waiting season for work | 38 |
0%
|
| 3 | Studying/ training | 30121 |
30.5%
|
| 4 | Family responsibilities | 19165 |
19.4%
|
| 5 | Low wages | 50 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Illness, injury or disability | 4240 |
4.3%
|
| 7 | waiting results from previous job\applications | 37 |
0%
|
| 8 | Arrangement was taken to start self employment | 8 |
0%
|
| 9 | Too young or too old to work | 2420 |
2.4%
|
| 10 | Waiting for permit to work in Israel | 16 |
0%
|
| 11 | Found\established a job which starts later | 6 |
0%
|
| 12 | Lack of the necessary qualification, training or experience | 156 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Unable to find work | 628 |
0.6%
|
| 14 | Retirement | 617 |
0.6%
|
| 15 | The existence of revenue | 1564 |
1.6%
|
| 16 | No jobs available in the area | 841 |
0.9%
|
| 17 | No need to work | 71 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | The household do not permit to work | 1305 |
1.3%
|
| 19 | Other (specify | 127 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 37298 |
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.