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: Q1-2023
Overview
Valid:
14894
Invalid:
9046
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 | 43 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Waiting season | 5 |
0%
|
| 3 | Studying/ training | 7145 |
29.8%
|
| 4 | Personal/ Family responsibilities | 5247 |
21.9%
|
| 5 | Low wages | 6 |
0%
|
| 6 | Illness, injury or disability | 1094 |
4.6%
|
| 7 | waiting results from previous job\applications | 4 |
0%
|
| 8 | Arrangement was taken to start self employment | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Too young or too old to work | 598 |
2.5%
|
| 10 | Waiting for permit to work in Israel | 5 |
0%
|
| 11 | Found\established a job which starts later | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | Lack of the necessary qualification, training or experience | 41 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Unable to find work | 45 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Retirement | 315 |
1.3%
|
| 15 | The existence of revenue | 159 |
0.7%
|
| 16 | No jobs available in the area | 134 |
0.6%
|
| 17 | No need to work | 4 |
0%
|
| 18 | The household do not permit to work | 31 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Other (specify | 18 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 9046 |
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.