Employment and Unemployment Survey 2010, Economic Research Forum (ERF) Harmonization Data - Jordan

Abstract
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THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN

The Department of Statistics (DOS) carried out four rounds of the 2010 Employment and Unemployment Survey (EUS). The survey rounds covered a total sample of about fifty three thousand households Nation-wide. The sampled households were selected using a stratified multi-stage cluster sampling design. It is noteworthy that the sample represents the national level (Kingdom), governorates, and the urban/rural areas.

The importance of this survey lies in that it provides a comprehensive data base on employment and unemployment that serves decision makers, researchers as well as other parties concerned with policies related to the organization of the Jordanian labor market.

It is worthy to mention that the DOS employed new technology in data collection and data processing. Data was collected using electronic questionnaire instead of a hard copy, namely a hand held device (PDA).

The survey main objectives are:

- To identify the demographic, social and economic characteristics of the population and manpower.
- To identify the occupational structure and economic activity of the employed persons, as well as their employment status.
- To identify the reasons behind the desire of the employed persons to search for a new or additional job.
- To measure the economic activity participation rates (the number of economically active population divided by the population of 15+ years old).
- To identify the different characteristics of the unemployed persons.
- To measure unemployment rates (the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of economically active population of 15+ years old) according to the various characteristics of the unemployed, and the changes that might take place in this regard.
- To identify the most important ways and means used by the unemployed persons to get a job, in addition to measuring durations of unemployment for such persons.
- To identify the changes overtime that might take place regarding the above-mentioned variables.

The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Agency were cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major project that started in 2009. During which extensive efforts have been exerted to acquire, clean, harmonize, preserve and disseminate micro data of existing labor force surveys in several Arab countries.

Geographic coverage
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Covering a sample representative on the national level (Kingdom), governorates, the three Regions (Central, North and South), and the urban/rural areas.

Analysis unit
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1- Household/family.
2- Individual/person.

Universe
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The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN

Survey Frame
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The sample of this survey is based on the frame provided by the data of the Population and Housing Census, 2004. The Kingdom was divided into strata, where each city with a population of 100,000 persons or more was considered as a large city.
The total number of these cities is 6. Each governorate (except for the 6 large cities) was divided into rural and urban areas. The rest of the urban areas in each governorate was considered as an independent stratum. The same was applied to rural areas where it was considered as an independent stratum. The total number of strata was 30.

In view of the existing significant variation in the socio-economic characteristics in large cities in particular and in urban in general, each stratum of the large cities and urban strata was divided into four sub-stratum according to the socio- economic characteristics provided by the population and housing census with the purpose of providing homogeneous strata.

The frame excludes the population living in remote areas (most of whom are nomads), In addition to that, the frame does not include collective dwellings, such as hotels, hospitals, work camps, prisons and alike.

Sample Design
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The sample of this survey was designed using the cluster stratified sampling method. It is representative at the Kingdom, rural and urban areas, regions and governorates levels. The Primary Sampling Units (clusters) were distributed to governorates, urban and rural areas and large cities in each governorate according to the weight of persons/households and according to the variance within each stratum. Slight modifications regarding the number of these units were made. The Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) were ordered within each stratum according to geographic characteristics and then according to socio-economic characteristics in order to ensure good spread of the sample. Then, the sample were selected on two stages. In the first stage, the PSUs were selected using the Probability Proportionate to Size with systematic selection procedure. The number of households, in each PSU served as its weight or size. In the second stage, the blocks of the PSUs which were selected in the first stage have been updated. Then a constant number of households was selected, using the random systematic sampling method as final PSUs from each PSU (cluster).

Sampling notes
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It is noteworthy that the sample of the present survey does not represent the non-Jordanian population, due to the fact that it is based on households living in conventional dwellings. In other words, it does not cover the collective households living in collective dwellings. Therefore, the non-Jordanian households covered in the present survey are either private households or collective households living in conventional dwellings. In Jordan, it is well known that a large number of non-Jordanian workers live as groups and spend most of their time at workplaces. Hence, it is more unlikely to find them at their residences during daytime (i.e. the time when the data of the survey is collected). Furthermore, most of them live in their workplaces, such as: workshops, sales stores, guard places, or under construction building's sites. Such places are not classified as occupied dwellings for household sampling purposes. Due to all of the above, the coverage of such population would not be complete in household surveys.

Mode of data collection
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Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument
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The questionnaire was designed electronically on the PDA and revised by the DOS technical staff. It was finalized upon completion of the training program. The questionnaire is divided into main topics, each containing a clear and consistent group of questions, and designed in a way that facilitates the electronic data entry and verification. The questionnaire includes the characteristics of household members in addition to the identification information, which reflects the administrative as well as the statistical divisions of the Kingdom.

Cleaning operations
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Raw Data
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PDAs were used to input and transfer data from the interviewees to the database.
The plan of the tabulation of survey results was guided by former Employment and Unemployment Surveys which were previously prepared and tested.
When all data processing procedures were completed, the actual survey results were tabulated using an ORACLE package. The tabulations were then thoroughly checked for consistency of data such as titles, inputs, concepts, as well as the figures.
The final survey report was then prepared to include all detailed tabulations as well as the methodology of the survey.

Harmonized Data
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- STATA package is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.
- The harmonization process starts with a cleaning process for all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency.
- All cleaned data files are then merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.
- A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/ compute/ recode/ rename/ format/ label harmonized variables.
- A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data.
- Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in STATA and then converted to SPSS, to be disseminated.

摘要
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由经济研究论坛生产和发布的经过清洗和协调的调查数据版本，完整地代表了约旦哈希姆王国统计局收集的原始调查数据的100%。统计局（DOS）实施了2010年就业与失业调查（EUS）的四轮调查。调查轮次覆盖了全国约五万三千户家庭的总体样本。所抽取的家庭采用分层多阶段聚类抽样设计。值得注意的是，该样本代表了国家层面（王国）、各省份以及城乡地区。

此次调查的重要性在于，它为决策者、研究人员以及其他关注约旦劳动力市场组织政策的相关方提供了一个关于就业与失业的全面数据库。

值得一提的是，DOS在数据收集和处理中采用了新技术。数据通过电子问卷而非纸质版收集，即手持设备（PDA）。

调查的主要目标包括：

- 识别人口和劳动力的人口统计学、社会和经济特征。
- 识别就业人员的职业结构和经济活动，以及他们的就业状况。
- 识别就业人员寻找新工作或额外工作的原因。
- 测量经济活动参与率（经济活跃人口数除以15岁及以上人口数）。
- 识别失业人员的不同特征。
- 根据失业人员的各种特征及其可能发生的变化，测量失业率（失业人数除以15岁及以上经济活跃人口数）。
- 识别失业人员寻找工作的最重要方式和手段，并测量此类人员的失业持续时间。
- 识别上述变量随时间可能发生的变化。

统计局提供的原始调查数据由经济研究论坛在2009年开始的一个大型项目中进行了清洗和协调。在此期间，进行了大量努力以获取、清洗、协调、保存和传播多个阿拉伯国家现有劳动力市场调查的微观数据。

地理覆盖范围
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涵盖全国层面（王国）、各省份、三个地区（中部、北部和南部）以及城乡地区具有代表性的样本。

分析单元
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1- 家庭/家庭。
2- 个人/人。

总体
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调查涵盖了全国家庭样本以及所有永久居住在调查家庭中的个人。

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

抽样程序
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由经济研究论坛生产和发布的经过清洗和协调的调查数据版本，完整地代表了约旦哈希姆王国统计局收集的原始调查数据的100%。...