South African Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3

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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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Work status (WORKSTAT)

Data file: SA Census 1980_Bophuthatswana_v1_2

Overview

Valid: 1512002

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 102

loc_end_pos: 102

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Present work status: E.g. employee, employer, unemployed, (looking for work), not working (not looking for work), etc.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employer (includes working for own account and family worker)	15583	1%
2	Employee	259454	17.2%
3	Unemployed	45347	3%
4	Not economically active	1190262	78.7%
5	Foreign visitor	1356	0.1%

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.

Interviewer instructions

2 (j) QUESTION 18 - Distinguish between employee, employer, worker on own account, family worker, unemployed (looking for work), housewife or "not employed" (not looking for work). "Not employed" includes pre-school children, scholars, full-time students, pensioners, etc.

Question post text

See instruction 2j

Description

Definition

This variable records the current work status of the individual household member.

Universe

Answer this part in respect of every person at midnight between 6 and 7 May 1980. (Only one person per column.)

Source of information

Househld member

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