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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Dec 19, 2025
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Main reason for not finding work (LAB_RNSW)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
111
loc_end_pos:
112
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awaiting the season for work | 222 |
0.3%
|
| 2 | Waiting to be recalled to former job | 102 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Health reasons | 1315 |
1.9%
|
| 4 | Pregnancy | 144 |
0.2%
|
| 5 | Disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 476 |
0.7%
|
| 6 | Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care) care) | 551 |
0.8%
|
| 7 | Undergoing training to help find work | 45 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | No jobs available in the area | 1299 |
1.8%
|
| 9 | Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work | 95 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills | 143 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Lost hope of finding any kind of work | 226 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | No transport available | 7 |
0%
|
| 13 | Scholar/learner or student | 6379 |
9.1%
|
| 14 | Retired | 1050 |
1.5%
|
| 15 | Too old / young to work | 5229 |
7.4%
|
| 16 | No desire to work | 351 |
0.5%
|
| 17 | Other reason | 443 |
0.6%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 52262 |
74.3%
|
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.