Labor Force Survey 2024
West Bank and Gaza, 2024 - 2025
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PSE-PCBS-LFS-2024-V1.0
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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What was the main reason you did not seek work or try to start a business in the last four weeks (PW18)
Data file: LFS10y_Q4_2024_E
Overview
Valid:
9550
Invalid:
6060
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
11
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 | 26 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Waiting season | 9 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Studying/ training | 4306 |
27.6%
|
| 4 | Personal/ Family responsibilities | 3582 |
22.9%
|
| 5 | Low wages | 36 |
0.2%
|
| 6 | Illness, injury or disability | 715 |
4.6%
|
| 7 | waiting results from previous job\applications | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | Arrangement was taken to start self employment | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Too young or too old to work | 528 |
3.4%
|
| 10 | Waiting for permit to work in Israel | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Found\established a job which starts later | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | Lack of the necessary qualification, training or experience | 8 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Unable to find work | 32 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Retirement | 183 |
1.2%
|
| 15 | The existence of revenue | 56 |
0.4%
|
| 16 | No jobs available in the area | 12 |
0.1%
|
| 17 | No need to work | 26 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | The household do not permit to work | 17 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Other (specify | 14 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 6060 |
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.