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Population Housing and Establishment Census 2007, Census 2007

West Bank and Gaza, 2007
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PSE-PCBS-CEN-2007-V1.0
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    -census2007

employment status (C77)

Data file: Persons-census2007

Overview

Valid: 90455
Valid (weighted): 452241.916
Invalid: 364564
Invalid (weighted): 1826853.204
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V36

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Sector
Literal question
employment status
Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
1 Employer 8240 41211
1.8%
2 Self employed 12241 61196
2.7%
3 Employee 63793 318934
14%
4 Unpaid family work 1936 9677
0.4%
9 Not Stated 4245 21223
0.9%
Sysmiss 364564 1826853
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.
Interviewer instructions
Writing pen blue dry
Sure of the official documents Kalhoip personal
Review the questionnaire before starting the process of packing
Are met, summary record to internal and external Algalavi after completing the questionnaire
Is not left empty pages for the housing units
If you use another form is put signal
X
At the bottom of the form
Head of the family is recorded in the beginning and then the wife or husband and unmarried children of the eldest and the youngest married then Aozusbandmtm relatives
Make sure there is an answer for every question or reference -
Do not use the same record more than the counting
Fields left blank Zip Top is located for office use
Question post text
Place of Work

Description

Definition
Employment Status:
It refers to the employment status of the employed or unemployed ever worked persons. The employment status is categorized as follows:
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 the public \ public limited liability companies.
2.Self-employed: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him \ her and hires no waged employees. This includes persons engaged independently in a profession or trade.
3.Regular wage employee: A person who works for others or for employer and receives remuneration in wage, salary, commission, tips, piece-rates or pay in kind, and must take in consideration that there is a agreement (written/orally) between the employer /work side and the employee which guarantee for employee work for period of time and guarantee for him some rights. This concept include employees in the ministries and the other public parties, in addition to wage employees in household projects or for others, employee\National Government, employee\Foreign Government, employee\ UNRWA, employee\International Organization, employee\Nonprofit Organization, regular employee\ private sector, regular employee\ foreign private sector.
4.Irregular wage employee: A person who works for employer, or under enterprise supervising as irregular employee, such as casual workers, daily or weekly without any official commitment for work, and when they are unemployed in the reference week they do not classified as employed
5.Unpaid family member: A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise (farm, undertaking … etc) operated by a related person in the same family.
Universe
The PHC-2007 covered all individuals who were in the Palestinian Territory on the census reference night (30/11-1/12/2007) regardless of nationality and citizenship. It also covered all Palestinians who have usual residence in the Palestinian Territory (including those who were temporarily absent for less than one year for the purpose of visit, tourism, treatment, etc. while their households are still living at their permanent places of residence in the Palestinian Territory). All Palestinian students abroad while their households are still living at their permanent places of residence were also included, in addition to all prisoners and detainees in the Israeli jails regardless of the duration of detention. The census excluded all Palestinians holding identity cards who were absent for more than one year (except for the students), even if their households are still living in their places of residence in the Palestinian Territory
Source of information
Head of the household

Imputation and derivation

Imputation
The reference date refers to the moment in which the Census data are based. Normally, it refers to the midnight of the day preceding the reference period. Thus, the findings of the Census relate to that night. The midnight of 30/11-1/12/2007 was adopted as the reference date of the Census.
Derivation
Coding manuals were prepared and examined beforehand as well as the instructions for editing and coding procedures for checking the consistency of the data and how to detect and correct errors. All editing and coding employees were selected among the best fieldworkers who collected the data from households and individuals. Training was conducted for them centrally to ensure unifying of concepts and checking data to eliminate disparities in fieldwork in all governorates. Editing, coding and testing consistency of (100%) of the questionnaires was conducted, in addition to desk reviewing, editing and coding (100%) in order to eliminate differences between individual editors, and to discover and correct errors and circulating them daily
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