WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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afr-world-wawgdl-2023-v1

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Equal pay: marital status (pay_marital)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 1154

Invalid: 35

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 55

loc_end_pos: 55

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No guarantee	674	58.4%
2	General guarantee of equal pay	108	9.4%
3	Broad prohibition of workplace discrimination based on marit	83	7.2%
4	Guarantees equal pay for equal work based on marital status	159	13.8%
5	Guarantees equal pay for work of equal value based on marita	130	11.3%
Sysmiss		35

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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