Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Income Survey Data

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Main reason for not finding work (LAB_RNSW)

Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 111

loc_end_pos: 112

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Awaiting the season for work
2	Waiting to be recalled to former job
3	Health reasons
4	Pregnancy
5	Disabled or unable to work (handicapped)
6	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care) care)
7	Undergoing training to help find work
8	No jobs available in the area
9	Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10	Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11	Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12	No transport available
13	Scholar/learner or student
14	Retired
15	Too old / young to work
16	No desire to work
17	Other reason
88	Not applicable

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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