Survey of Activities of Young People 1999

South Africa, 1999

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Main reason for missing school (q726rsns)

Data file: SAYP 1999 Youngp_v1.1_labelled

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 338

loc_end_pos: 341

Width: 4

Range: -999 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
-999	Not Applicable
-99	Unspecified
1	Illness/sick (own)
2	School class not operating/teacher missing
3	School is too far, poor quality, etc.
4	Needed to help with household chores – adults sick/disabled
5	Needed to help with household chores for other reasons
6	Busy with activities mentioned earlier
7	Personal reasons (except pregnancy/looking after own children)
8	Pregnant, looking after own children
9	To look for work
10	Other, specify

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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