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 RSI_v1

Overview

Valid: 1594

Invalid: 9186

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 379

loc_end_pos: 379

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	waited, registered at employment agency	152	9.5%
2	enquired at workplaces	908	57%
3	looked in newspapers	278	17.4%
4	sought assistance from friends	112	7%
5	looked for land, buildings or equipment	22	1.4%
6	took training or sought training	8	0.5%
7	waiting at the street-side	111	7%
8	nothing, but has a job to start at	3	0.2%
9	other activity	0	0%
Sysmiss		9186

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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