South African Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Oct 18, 2012

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Work status (WRKSTAT)

Data file: sa-census-1980-v1.3

Overview

Valid: 25016525

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 81

loc_end_pos: 81

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employer	350989	1.4%
2	Employee	7761589	31%
3	Unemployed	577148	2.3%
4	Not economically active	16326799	65.3%

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.

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