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Population and Housing Census 2017, Third Round

West Bank and Gaza, 2017
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Main Employment Status (Q80)

Data file: Members-en 2017

Overview

Valid: 190760
Invalid: 749853
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
Main Employment Status
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Employer 15584
1.7%
2 Self employed 30099
3.2%
3 Regular wage employee 102799
10.9%
4 Irregular wage employee 38409
4.1%
5 Unpaid family member 3862
0.4%
9 Not stated 7
0%
Sysmiss 749853
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
t refers to the employment status of the employed or unemployed ever worked persons.
1. Employer: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him \ her and hires or supervises the work of one or more waged employees. This includes persons operating their projects or contracting companies provided they employ a minimum of one waged employee. Shareholders are not considered employers even if they are working in it.
2. Self-employed: A person who work in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him\her (partner) and do not hires any wage employees. This includes self employed who work to own selves outside establishments.
3. Regular wage employee: A person who works for another person or for the account of a particular establishment/ enterprise under or it's supervision and receives remuneration in wage, salary, commission, tips, piece rates or another remuneration kind, Taking into account that there is an agreement (oral / written) between the employer and the worker to guarantee some rights for the employee. This item includes persons employed in governmental, non - governmental and private institutions along with those employed in a household enterprise in return for a specific remuneration, UNRWA, regular employee/ national private sector / Foreign Private Sector.
4. Irregular wage employee: A person who works for another person or for the account of an establishment/ enterprise under it's supervision irregularly, such as casual employees, employees on a daily or weekly basis without any formal attachment with the work. and when they are out of work in the reference period, they are not classified as workers.
5. Unpaid family member: A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person in the same household.
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