National Income Dynamics Study 2008
Wave 1

South Africa, 2008

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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National Income Dynamics Study African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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e69 - Reason for not accepting job while waiting for and wanting work (w1_a_unemrjex)

Data file: Adult_W1_Anon_V7.0.0

Overview

Valid: 149

Invalid: 16723

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 50

Range: -9 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	13	8.7%
-3	Missing	36	24.2%
1	The job was too far away	10	6.7%
2	The wage offered was too low	37	24.8%
3	The cost of travel would have been too high	2	1.3%
4	The job was below my educational/skill level	5	3.4%
5	I did not like the job	18	12.1%
6	Family commitments prevented me from acceptance	20	13.4%
7	I wanted to further my studies	1	0.7%
8	Other (specify)	7	4.7%
Sysmiss		16723

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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