South African Social Attitudes Survey 2006
South Africa, 2004
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Q284 - What is your current occupation? (q284)
Data file: SASAS2006_q1
Overview
Valid:
2880
Invalid:
24
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
334
loc_end_pos:
335
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | N.A. never had a job | 608 |
21.1%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 39 |
1.4%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 79 |
2.7%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 114 |
4%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 186 |
6.5%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 210 |
7.3%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 36 |
1.3%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 118 |
4.1%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 121 |
4.2%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 698 |
24.2%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 0 |
0%
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 8 |
0.3%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occup unspecified | 97 |
3.4%
|
| 83 | Occup in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | Occup not elsewhere classified | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 85 | Occup not adequately defined | 36 |
1.3%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 116 |
4%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,Househusbands | 63 |
2.2%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 1 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 139 |
4.8%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not econ.active,>65y | 121 |
4.2%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 to 65 years | 16 |
0.6%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 1 |
0%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 40 |
1.4%
|
| 98 | Undetermined,dont know | 29 |
1%
|
| Sysmiss | 24 |
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.