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Living Condition Survey 2014

Afghanistan, 2014
Household Income Expenditure Surveys
Central Statistics Office (CSO)
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  • Study description
  • Documentation
  • Data Description
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Metadata production

Identification

IDNO
AFG_2014_LCS_v01_M_ILO_VAR
Title
Living Condition Survey 2014
Abbreviation or Acronym
LCS 2014
Country
Name Country code
Afghanistan AFG
Kind of Data
survey
Unit of Analysis
households/individuals

Version

Version number
1.0

Scope

Study notes
Sample Weight ('ilo_wgt'): hh_weight gives the same results as report. ind_weight wrong.

Geographical coverage ('ilo_geo'): Rural includes Kuchi.

Level of education ('ilo_edu'): Based on UNESCO mapping - file in Technical folder. Used question on having attended and currently attending. Islamic schooling (category 7) coded according to the UNESCO mapping. Illiterate coded as no schooling. Assumed those in primary education have completed early childhood education. No higher category than Master as option in questionnaire.

Marital status ('ilo_mrts'): Engaged as not elsewhere classified.

Household Chores Status ('ilo_hh_chores'): Fetching water/collecting wood; Other also included.

Labour Force Status ('ilo_lfs'): Two versions: based on adult and child questions. Adult labour questions asked to 14+ only. Unemployed: three criteria.

Economic activity ('ilo_eco'): It follows ISIC Rev.2 at 3 digits. The conversion has been done for the codes in the dataset based on correspondence tables in Technical folder. Checked labels, generally OK - 834 does not exist in ISIC Rev. 2. Label in data: Domestic security: security guards - coded it as 93 - Other service activities.

Occupation ('ilo_ocu'): Occupation follows ISCO08 at 3 digits (checked labels and codes - it corresponds)

Time-related underemployed ('ilo_joball_tru'): Based on actual hours.

Cases of non-fatal occupational injury ('ilo_joball_oi_case'): Only yes/no and only asked to 5-17.

Reasons for not seeking a job ('ilo_olf_reason'): 9-Temporarily laid off and 10-Waiting for busy season coded as other labour market reasons.
Topic Classification
Topic Vocabulary
Area type ILO
Gender ILO
Age ILO
Place of birth ILO
Marital status ILO
Education ILO
Working age population ILO
Labour Force Status ILO
Labour market attachment ILO
Multiple job holders ILO
Status in employment ILO
Economic activity ILO
Occupation ILO
Institutional sector (private/public) ILO
Working time arrangement ILO
Weekly working hours ILO
Monthly earnings ILO
Time-related underemployed ILO
Occupational injury ILO
Discouraged job-seekers ILO
Youth not in education, employment or training ILO
Household chores ILO

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Unit of Analysis
households/individuals

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity/Primary investigators
Agency Name
Central Statistics Office (CSO)

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Sample size: 157262

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
2014 2014
Frequency of Data Collection
Yearly

Metadata production

Document ID
AFG_2014_LCS_v01_M_ILO_VAR
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Department of Statistics ILO International Labour Organisation Producer of DDI (via API)
Date of Production
2020-08-04
Document version
1.0

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