Survey of Activities of Young People 2010
South Africa, 2010
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Reason left school (Q212Whyleft)
Data file: sayp-2010-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
288
Invalid:
17084
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
2
Width:
5
Range:
1 - 20
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Completed schooling | 8 |
2.8%
|
| 2 | Too old for school | 1 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | Disabled | 8 |
2.8%
|
| 4 | illness | 25 |
8.7%
|
| 5 | No school/school too far | 10 |
3.5%
|
| 6 | Cannot afford schooling | 26 |
9%
|
| 7 | Family did not allow schooling | 4 |
1.4%
|
| 8 | Failed repeatedly | 27 |
9.4%
|
| 9 | Not interested/education not considered valuable | 49 |
17%
|
| 10 | School not safe | 3 |
1%
|
| 12 | To work | 9 |
3.1%
|
| 13 | To help at home with household tasks | 2 |
0.7%
|
| 14 | Parent(s) died | 12 |
4.2%
|
| 16 | Looking after a sick family member | 1 |
0.3%
|
| 17 | Pregnant | 58 |
20.1%
|
| 18 | looking after own children | 4 |
1.4%
|
| 19 | Expelled | 11 |
3.8%
|
| 20 | Other, Specify……. | 30 |
10.4%
|
| Sysmiss | 17084 |
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.