Arab Republic of Egypt - Annual statistical bulletin of Employment, wages and working hours 2017

This data for Public use via the internet v1.0

2017-05-27

Public sector/Public business sector – comprehensive counting

Private sector 25 workers and more – comprehensive counting

Private Sector 10 workers and more - sample

First: Statistical Targets :

1- Statistical bulletin aims to estimate the number of employees and average weekly cash wages in pounds by gender, economic activity of enterprises, geographic distribution and the occupational classifications .

2- Estimation of aversage numbers of weekly working hours per capita by gender, economic activity of enterprises, geographic distribution and the occupational classifications . .

Second: Historical development of Stattistics :

1- Return the history of statistics in Egypt to year 1942, where first statistics conducted in semi periodic year (January, July), then statistics prepared after that in annual periodic until now.

2- Started from 2006 the development of the used survey in statistics, where the employees data collected by gender (male/female), as well as modified the category of cash wages in both second and third table .

3- Started since 2010 designing a separated survey for both public sector/ public business – private sector .

Third: Methodology:

1- Periodic :

‌A- This bulletin prepared annually.

‌B- The Statistic time reference changed to start from 2010 – first week of July instead of the first week of October .

Other

1- Counting Unit :

Establishments that works in one of these types of economic activity, including:

A- All Establishments of Public sector/ public business with the number of their workers.

B- Establishments of Private Sector which works in it (10 workers and more), that have main centers only. In case of branches, the number of employees in this establishment in addition to the main center 10 workers and more.

2- Workers in the Establishment:

Workers who signed contracts with employer, by a commitment from the employer to pay their wages and the workers committed to work for him the establishment, and it does not include this definition the following:

A- Workers who take cash wages but when they got absent for no reason in all days of payment, they did not compensate for these days.

B- Workers who work without wages even if they take in kind benefits.

C- Workers who paid per day even if they took their whole payments or part of it.

D- Envoys and Seconded to other entity permanently

E- Industrial students following to occupational training institutions, as long as they are under training phase and did not assigned in the establishment permanently, even if the establishment pay cash wages and in kind benefits for them.

F- Half time workers who work in the establishment and take bonus for their work like doctors, accountants, students ….. etc, workers who work at the same time in more than establishment.

3- Total paid working hours:

Number of hours that workers paid for in cash wages in addition to the actual working hours and the counted hours with wages in weekly vacations, holidays and day off (full paid leave and additional).

4- Total cash wages:

Total cash wages on paying time before deducting and including base salary, overtime, Allowances, any other periodic benefits like commissions, periodic production bonus.