Mesebetsi Labour Force Survey 1999-2000

South Africa, 1999 - 2000

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zaf-fafo-mlfs-1999-2000-v1

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Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science (Fafo), South African Department of Labour

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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actions taken to look for work 1 (b13a)

Data file: Mesebetsi LFS1999-2000 Hhold_v1

Overview

Valid: 4733

Invalid: 45634

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 124

loc_end_pos: 124

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	waited, registered at employment agency	420	8.9%
2	enquired at workplaces	2711	57.3%
3	looked in newspapers	821	17.3%
4	sought assistance from friends	323	6.8%
5	looked for land, buildings or equipment	49	1%
6	took training or sought training	24	0.5%
7	waiting at the street-side	373	7.9%
8	nothing, but has a job to start at	12	0.3%
9	other activity	0	0%
Sysmiss		45634

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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