South African Social Attitudes Survey 2006
South Africa, 2004
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- SASAS2006_q2
Q256 - What is your current occupation? (q256)
Data file: SASAS2006_q2
Overview
Valid:
2923
Invalid:
16
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
351
loc_end_pos:
352
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | N.A. never had a job | 640 |
21.9%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 52 |
1.8%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 104 |
3.6%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 88 |
3%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 185 |
6.3%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 231 |
7.9%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 29 |
1%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 168 |
5.7%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 147 |
5%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 635 |
21.7%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 0 |
0%
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 11 |
0.4%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occup unspecified | 105 |
3.6%
|
| 83 | Occup in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | Occup not elsewhere classified | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 85 | Occup not adequately defined | 42 |
1.4%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 91 |
3.1%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,Househusbands | 66 |
2.3%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 0 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 117 |
4%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not econ.active,>65Y | 119 |
4.1%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 To 65 Y | 11 |
0.4%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 45 |
1.5%
|
| 98 | Undetermined,dont know | 33 |
1.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 16 |
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.