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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alt. ilo labour force status: fetching wood, water= work (lf_iloww)

Data file: Mesebetsi LFS1999-2000 Hhold_v1

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Valid: 50367

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 322

loc_end_pos: 322

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	employed	12956	25.7%
2	unemployed strict: actively looking	4739	9.4%
3	unemployed expanded: not actively looking	3615	7.2%
4	out of labour force	10752	21.3%
7	below age 15	16083	31.9%
8	visitor age 15+	2162	4.3%
9	unable to classify	60	0.1%

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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