Employment and Unemployment Survey, EUS 2012 - Jordan

Abstract --------------------------- 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 2012 Employment and Unemployment Survey (EUS) during 2012. The survey rounds covered a total sample of about fifty three thousand households Nation-wide (53.4 thousands). The sampled households were selected using a stratified cluster sampling design. It is worthy to mention that the DOS employed new technology in the data collection and processing. Data was collected using the electronic questionnaire instead of a hard copy, namely a hand held device (PDA). 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 --------------------------- Covering a representative sample on the national level (Kingdom), governorates, and the three Regions (Central, North and South). Analysis unit --------------------------- 1- Household/family. 2- Individual/person. Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- 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 ----------------------- 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 were considered as an independent stratum. The same was applied to rural areas where they were considered as an independent stratum. The total number of strata was 30. And because of the existence of significant variation in the social and economic characteristics in large cities, in particular, and in urban areas in general, each stratum of the large cities and urban strata was divided into four sub-stratums according to the socio- economic characteristics provided by the population and housing census 2004 aiming at providing homogeneous strata. Sample Design ----------------------- The sample of this survey was designed using a stratified cluster sampling method. The sample is considered representative on the Kingdom, rural, urban, regions and governorates levels, however, it does not represent the non-Jordanians. Sampling notes ----------------------- 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. However, it is worth noting that the collective households identified in the harmonized data, through a variable indicating the household type, are those reported without heads in the raw data, and in which the relationship of all household members to head was reported "other". This sample is also not representative for the non-Jordanian population. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] Research instrument --------------------------- The questionnaire was designed electronically on the PDA and revised by the DOS technical staff. It is divided into a number of 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 --------------------------- Raw Data ======= A tabulation results plan has been set based on the previous Employment and Unemployment Surveys while the required programs were prepared and tested. When all prior data processing steps were completed, the actual survey results were tabulated using an ORACLE package. The tabulations were then thoroughly checked for consistency of data. The final report was then prepared, containing detailed tabulations as well as the methodology of the survey. Harmonized Data ============ - The SPSS 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 SPSS and then converted to STATA, to be disseminated. Response rate --------------------------- The results of the fieldwork indicated that the number of successfully completed interviews was 48880 (with around 91% response rate).