Labor Force Survey 2023
West Bank and Gaza, 2023 - 2024
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PSE-PCBS-LFS-2023-V1.0
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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- yearly 2023
- Q1-2023
- LFS-Q2-2023
- LFS-Q3-2023-E
- LFS10Y_q4 2023
What was the main reason you did not seek work or try to start a business in the last four weeks (PW18)
Data file: LFS-Q2-2023
Overview
Valid:
14590
Invalid:
8890
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 | 59 |
0.3%
|
| 2 | Waiting season | 5 |
0%
|
| 3 | Studying/ training | 7010 |
29.9%
|
| 4 | Personal/ Family responsibilities | 5051 |
21.5%
|
| 5 | Low wages | 9 |
0%
|
| 6 | Illness, injury or disability | 1051 |
4.5%
|
| 7 | waiting results from previous job\applications | 11 |
0%
|
| 8 | Arrangement was taken to start self employment | 4 |
0%
|
| 9 | Too young or too old to work | 615 |
2.6%
|
| 10 | Waiting for permit to work in Israel | 1 |
0%
|
| 11 | Found\established a job which starts later | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | Lack of the necessary qualification, training or experience | 44 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Unable to find work | 36 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Retirement | 298 |
1.3%
|
| 15 | The existence of revenue | 186 |
0.8%
|
| 16 | No jobs available in the area | 167 |
0.7%
|
| 17 | No need to work | 1 |
0%
|
| 18 | The household do not permit to work | 29 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Other (specify | 13 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 8890 |
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.