South African Census 1970

South Africa, 1970

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zaf-ds-census-1970-v1.2

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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Oct 17, 2012

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Status of Employment (EMPSTAT)

Data file: SA Census 1970 WhitesColouredsAsians_full_v1.2

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 62

loc_end_pos: 62

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Employer (own business), includes worker for own account (no employees) as well as unpaid family workers in business, profession or farming
2	Employee
3	Unemployed
4	Not working (not looking for work- e.g. housewife, retired, scholar, chronic invalid, etc.)
5	Foreign visitor (visitor from another country on temporary visit to S.A.)

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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