Labor Market Panel Survey, JLMPS 2016, Jordan

As part of its series of comprehensive labor market panel surveys, the Economic Research Forum had conducted a survey in Jordan in 2010, the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey of 2010 (JLMPS 2010) and had planned to conduct a new wave after six years. The JLMPS 2016 thus comes at an opportune time to allow for an in-depth assessment of critical social and economic developments in Jordan's recent history. The JLMPS is part of a series of labor market panel surveys carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in several Arab countries since 1998 and whose microdata are available for public use through the ERF data portal. These surveys have, so far, been carried out in Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). The ERF Labor Market Panel Surveys (LMPSs) are carried out in cooperation with the national statistical office of each country. Accordingly, the JLMPS 2016 was carried out in cooperation with the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DoS), which had preserved the personally identifiable information (PII) of the sample from the previous wave, supplied a refresher sample based on the design provided by ERF researchers, and implemented all data collection activities using tablet computers. As part of a longitudinal survey, the 2016 wave of JLMPS was designed to follow an existing population over time. However, the 2016 wave was also designed to capture the implications of the large influx of new populations, both refugee and migrant worker flows, into Jordan during the intervening period. To this end, the survey design team decided to add a large refresher sample of 3,000 households that over-sampled neighborhoods in Jordan that had high proportions of non-Jordanian households, including refugee camps, as ascertained by the 2015 Population Census. New modules were also added to the questionnaire to inquire about the in-migration of non-Jordanians, food security, and household exposure to shocks and coping strategies. We assume in this paper that the 2015 Census population counts of various nationality groups are appropriate for our sample and reproduce these counts by means of the appropriate ex-post weights" (Krafft and Assaad, 2018). The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/139