Egypt

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected and compiled by the Ministry of Manpower and Training.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Lockouts by employers are not known in Egypt; the party effecting the temporary work stoppage is not identified.

Constitutional or official strikes are not included, nor are political or protest strikes, general strikes, work stoppages initiated by employers, working to rule, go-slows or overtime ban.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved only. As well as regular paid employees, the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers. Part-time workers and unpaid family workers are not included, nor are workers laid off, or workers absent on sick or annual leave or absent for any other reason.

No particular occupational groups are excluded.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Work stoppage

A work stoppage wilfully effected by a group of workers with a view to enforcing or resisting a demand or expressing a grievance.

The definition comes from the Interim Resolution adopted by the 14th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 1987); it is used as a working definition for statistical purposes.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is the case of dispute. The resumption of a strike that is interrupted but later begins again, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a continuation of the same strike if the interruption does not exceed one day.

Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously or at different times, in different establishments of the same enterprise are counted as separate strikes, as are those arising from the same case of dispute occurring simultaneously or at different times in establishments of different enterprises.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the enterprise or establishment, defined as a single physical location where business is conducted.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the average of the number of daily absences during the period of the strike.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays from the date on which the strike began in the first economic unit involved up to the date on which it terminated in the last one.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays as the product of the number of workers involved and the duration. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Branch of economic activity

The data are classified by branch of economic activity, using the International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC, 1968).

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled for periods of a year. They refer to strikes beginning during the particular reference period plus those continuing from the previous period.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

None.

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes, the number of workers involved and the number of days not worked, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is a legal obligation for the Manpower Directorates to report the occurrence of a strike to the Ministry of Manpower and Training.