Motivation: Our national source for Egypt reports its labor force survey with limited history (from 2007Q1).

Response: For international consistency, we have estimated the four standard quarterly labor force status indicators (labor force, employment, unemployment, and unemployment rate) using quarterly seasonally adjusted data from the International Monetary Fund.

Properties:

• Measurement: Thousands of people (Ths. #) or percent (%)
• Adjustment: Seasonally adjusted
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Start Date: 1989Q1
• Geo coverage: Nation

The estimates reside in the historical catalog (Egypt » Labor and Wages » Labor force status » Moody's Analytics Estimated) and are:

• RLBFQ.IEGY = Labor force, (Ths. #, SA)
• RLBRQ.IEGY = Unemployment rate, (%, SA)
• RLBUQ.IEGY = Unemployment, (Ths. #, SA)
• RLBEQ.IEGY = Employment, (Ths. #, SA)

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