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Wages

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Wage earners pay is the only reliable quantitative data for income estimates in the sources and real and nominal wages maybe reliably used for relevant calculations of standards of living based on wheat prices or basket of goods. The data collected on Excels is from Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, with the only definition available for analysis is skilled and unskilled wages based on occupational titles. No quantitative data on age and gender of wage earners, is currently available.