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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how many weeks looking for work? (b14)

Data file: Mesebetsi LFS1999-2000 Hhold_v1

Overview

Valid: 4562

Invalid: 45805

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 127

loc_end_pos: 127

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	4 weeks or less	217	4.8%
2	5 to 8 weeks	185	4.1%
3	2 to 5 months	372	8.2%
4	6 months to 1 year	967	21.2%
5	more than 1 year	2821	61.8%
9	dont know, no answer	0	0%
Sysmiss		45805

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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