PALESTINIAN SOCIETY - Fafo

ent both on the definition of "unemployed" and the definition of
"labour force".
The FAFO survey measures higherunemployment ratios among
women, and for Gaza than CBS. The higher unemployment ratio
for women in the FAFO survey may be due to the inc1usion of Arab
Jerusalem in this survey. A possible explanation for the difference
for male unemployment in Gaza is differences in the political
situation between 1989 and 1992. At the time of interviewing in
the FAFO survey, new restrictions on employment in Israel (age
limits on entry, new permissions, e.t.c.) had recently been introduced,
obstructing severaI Gaza workers from access to their usual
employment in Israel.
Employed Persons
The last part of the employment chapter in the FAFO living conditions
survey mainly deals with the distribution of the labour force by type,
place and econornic branch of work. Because interviewing in the
FAFO survey was made over a few months only, two adaptations of
the labour force concept were made to reduce the effect of seasonal
variations:
l Persons who were not members of the labour force at the time of
the survey, but had still worked one month during the last yearwere
inc1uded in the tables fordistribution of the labour force. (Approximately
95% ofthe persons who had workedforone month or more
during the preceding year were also labour force members).
2 Labour force members who had not worked one month or more
during the preceding year on the contrary, were not included in the
results for distribution of employment over type, place and econornic
branch of work. This group comprised 84% of the labour
force, referred to in the first part of the employment chapter.
All results presented in this part thus comprise persons who
were both labour force members, and had worked at least one
FigureA. 7.35 Distribution of employed persons in the FA FO and CBS
surveys
Worked less than one
month last yea r
Worked more than
one mo nth last year
386
Employed
Full time Part time
Temporarily
absent Unemployed
Not in labour
force
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10