Labor Force Survey 2019
West Bank and Gaza, 2019 - 2020
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PSE-PCBS-LFS-2019-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-Q3-2019-E
Overview
Valid:
14374
Invalid:
8888
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 | 41 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Waiting season | 10 |
0%
|
| 3 | Studying/ training | 6635 |
28.5%
|
| 4 | Personal/ Family responsibilities | 4880 |
21%
|
| 5 | Low wages | 29 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Illness, injury or disability | 956 |
4.1%
|
| 7 | waiting results from previous job\applications | 6 |
0%
|
| 8 | Arrangement was taken to start self employment | 2 |
0%
|
| 9 | Too young or too old to work | 692 |
3%
|
| 10 | Waiting for permit to work in Israel | 3 |
0%
|
| 11 | Found\established a job which starts later | 1 |
0%
|
| 12 | Lack of the necessary qualification, training or experience | 82 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | Unable to find work | 109 |
0.5%
|
| 14 | Retirement | 314 |
1.3%
|
| 15 | The existence of revenue | 38 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | No jobs available in the area | 360 |
1.5%
|
| 17 | No need to work | 122 |
0.5%
|
| 18 | The household do not permit to work | 63 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | Other (specify | 31 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 8888 |
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.