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: yearly 2020

Overview

Valid: 7757

Invalid: 83081

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,,,)	1428	1.6%
2	No desire to work more	12	0%
3	Strike	69	0.1%
4	closure	129	0.1%
5	The nature of normal work hours	1109	1.2%
6	Could not find additional work	1573	1.7%
7	other	3437	3.8%
Sysmiss		83081

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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