Labor Force Survey 2020

West Bank and Gaza, 2020 - 2021

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PSE-PCBS-LFS-2020-V1.0

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Employment and Unemployment

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Oct 14, 2021

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Why was the number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours (PW07)

Data file: q3 2020

Overview

Valid: 1823

Invalid: 20666

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 11

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Why was the number of hours worked last week less than 35 hours

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Personal reasons (Illness, vacation,,,)	554	2.5%
2	No desire to work more	2	0%
3	Strike	17	0.1%
4	closure	39	0.2%
5	The nature of normal work hours	199	0.9%
6	Could not find additional work	410	1.8%
7	other	602	2.7%
Sysmiss		20666

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.

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