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Table 5: West Bank and Gaza: Parameter estimates for the log odds of
unemployed respondents relative to fully employed: The values under B’s
coefficient indicate log odds ratio associated with each effect, while the
values under E(B) indicate the odds- ratio.
Independent
Variables
’s
coefficient
Standard
error
E( ) Wald test Significance
Sex
Male .546 .009 1.726 3420.227 .000
Female 0(b) . . . .
Age
15-19 .804 .017 2.234 2206.788 .000
20-24 .950 .014 2.586 4417.769 .000
25-29 .535 .013 1.707 1617.158 .000
30-34 .454 .013 1.575 1208.596 .000
35-39 .483 .013 1.621 1306.040 .000
40-44 .436 .014 1.547 974.393 .000
45-49 .324 .016 1.382 432.061 .000
50 and over 0(b) . . . .
Years of schooling
No education 0.987 .026 2.684 1407.296 .000
Primary education 1.495 .010 4.459 20910.382 .000
Secondary education 1.253 .009 3.501 17650.447 .000
High education 0.941 .009 2.562 11761.813 .000
College and university 0(b) . . . .
District
Jenin .830 .013 2.293 3906.770 .000
Tubas .406 .025 1.500 256.327 .000
Tulkarem .212 .016 1.236 168.216 .000
Nablus .251 .013 1.285 394.525 .000
Qalqilya .521 .020 1.684 653.298 .000
Salfit .699 .024 2.012 855.346 .000
Ramallah -.211 .014 .810 238.513 .000
Jericho -1.337 .038 .263 1232.163 .000
Jerusalem -.340 .012 .712 790.180 .000
Bethlehem -.504 .017 .604 889.991 .000
Hebron 0(b) . . . .
North Gaza -.006 .019 .994 .106 .745
Gaza city -.061 .017 .941 12.250 .000
Deer al balah .030 .020 1.030 2.361 .124
Khan younis .170 .019 1.186 84.216 .000
Rafah 0(b) . . . .