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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Feb 11, 2013

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actions taken to look for work 2 (b13b)

Data file: Mesebetsi LFS1999-2000 Hhold_v1

Overview

Valid: 469

Invalid: 49898

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 125

loc_end_pos: 125

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	waited, registered at employment agency	3	0.6%
2	enquired at workplaces	67	14.3%
3	looked in newspapers	191	40.7%
4	sought assistance from friends	135	28.8%
5	looked for land, buildings or equipment	2	0.4%
6	took training or sought training	3	0.6%
7	waiting at the street-side	67	14.3%
8	nothing, but has a job to start at	1	0.2%
9	other activity	0	0%
Sysmiss		49898

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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