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Palestinian Population, Housing, and Establishment Census, 2017 - IPUMS Subset

West Bank and Gaza, 2017
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Reference ID
WBG_2017_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Metadata
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Job contract for wage employee (PS2017A_WRKCONTRCT)

Data file: PSE2017_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 184
End: 184
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">For employed persons and unemployed ones who ever worked (who answers items (1--5) of question 74, and if the answers (6--12) go to question 83</span>
<br />[Questions 79 through 82 asked of persons aged 7 or older who were employed or unemployed as indicated in questions 74 responses 1 through 5.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Wage employee question 80 answers (3--4)</span>
<br />[Question 81 and 82 were asked to respondents who answered they were wage earning employees in question 80]</p>

<p><span class="em">81. What is the nature of individual contract (current/previous job)</span><div class="i1">[] 1. Written contract for a limited period<br />[] 2. Written contract for unlimited period<br />[] 3. Verbal agreement<br />[] 4. No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Written contract for a limited period
2 Written contract for an unlimited period
3 Verbal agreement
4 No
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of job contract a wage employee had in the week prior to the census.
Universe
Palestine 2017: Persons age 7+ who ever worked as a wage employee [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
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