South African Census 1996, 10% Sample

South Africa, 1996

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Employment status of head of household (hohecona)

Data file: census-1996-hhold-v1.2

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Valid: 846478

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Employed	435434	51.4%
2	Unemployed, looking for work	120205	14.2%
3	Not working - not looking for work	23708	2.8%
4	Not working - housewife/home-maker	45349	5.4%
6	Not working - scholar/full-time student	27897	3.3%
7	Not working - pensioner/retired person	150670	17.8%
8	Not working - disabled person	9667	1.1%
9	Not working - not wishing to work	8271	1%
10	Not working - none of the above	20950	2.5%
99	Unspecified/Dummy	4327	0.5%

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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