National Income Dynamics Study 2008
Wave 1
South Africa, 2008
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e3_o - Other methods taken to find current job (w1_a_em1inf_o)
Data file: Adult_W1_Anon_V7.0.0
Overview
Valid:
213
Invalid:
-
Type:
Discrete
Width:
50
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| (Had an abursury with Sanlam) | |
| -3 | |
| A meeeting was held in area people were chosen | |
| APPLIED | |
| Acall from the cheestors | |
| Affirmative action position | |
| Aplied for position | |
| Applied | |
| Applied For The Job | |
| Applied at department of education | |
| Applied at school | |
| Applied by letter | |
| Applied for job | |
| Applied for position | |
| Applied for the job | |
| Applied to School Principal | |
| Applied to the company | |
| Apply for the job | |
| Applying | |
| Approved for the job | |
| At school (occupational information) | |
| BEE Initiatives | |
| Building Houses | |
| Bursary | |
| CV Send | |
| Calling system | |
| Carried on after retirement | |
| Circumstances of ownership that changed of company | |
| Coimmunity decides bases on financial status | |
| Community choose people based on their financial d | |
| Community chooses those that are in need | |
| Company took over previous company | |
| Company was sold - moved with company | |
| Completed studies there | |
| Creche assistant at home | |
| Department office | |
| Did my practical teaching at Woodridge in 2006 | |
| Dont remember | |
| Dreams (visions) | |
| Family Bussiness | |
| Father owns business | |
| Fill in application and went for interview | |
| Fransferd | |
| Got married on farm and started to work on farm | |
| Grew up on farm and asked for a job | |
| Grew up on this farm | |
| He applied for the job | |
| He just fetch me personally | |
| He send his cv | |
| Husband's business | |
| I Applied | |
| I applied | |
| I applied for the job | |
| I volunteered and was later hired | |
| Internal Promotion | |
| Internal Transfer | |
| Internal post | |
| JUST APPLIED | |
| Job Offered | |
| Joint reserve | |
| Just applied | |
| Just got into it | |
| Learnership | |
| Letter was sent to the respondent | |
| Looking for job | |
| Made an application | |
| Made application for work | |
| Manager saw her in the taxi | |
| Marketing | |
| Marry and work as X in Y | |
| Matron at hostel managment of kitchen and staff an | |
| Move from one school to another | |
| Moved to a new place | |
| Own business | |
| Posted there after she finished her training | |
| Promotion | |
| Recommended to it | |
| Recruited by government via aptitude test (UF) | |
| Recruited on family background criteria poor | |
| Referral via husband work place | |
| Replace mother when she got sick | |
| Representive | |
| SEND CV | |
| School | |
| School Principal saw a potential and hired me | |
| Security company 100hed for people at the place | |
| Send a CV | |
| Send in an application and went for interview | |
| Sent CV | |
| Sent CV to different companies | |
| She didnt had money to pay school fees | |
| Social worker | |
| Someone asked her | |
| Started his own business | |
| Started it | |
| Started own company | |
| Study for it | |
| The farm owner employed me | |
| The mine recriuted(approached)me | |
| The owner did give me the job | |
| They voted for her | |
| Through Leadership | |
| Through bursary | |
| Through community projects | |
| Through courses | |
| Through finder, finder | |
| Through in service training | |
| Through leadership | |
| Took over from the husband | |
| Tranferred | |
| Transfered from the old department | |
| Transferred from another department | |
| Via Church | |
| Volotienry | |
| Volunteer before | |
| Vote for him | |
| Voted by the parent | |
| Wanted to join the Air Force | |
| We are the founders | |
| We live on the farm | |
| Work for himself | |
| Work on farm was promoted | |
| Worked on farm before (just came back) | |
| a supplier recommended | |
| applied | |
| applied for job. | |
| applied for the job. | |
| applying | |
| asked for work on the farm I grew up | |
| calling of God | |
| came with thecontract from Botswana | |
| campos | |
| caregiver | |
| community chooses based on how needy you are | |
| contract | |
| contract owner | |
| found her | |
| got offered | |
| hand posted | |
| he came by himself | |
| i applied for the job | |
| internal transfer | |
| looked for job | |
| made enquires | |
| made enquiries | |
| nursing sister | |
| paid to train | |
| picked from school-pool | |
| replysment | |
| spoke to mine agent | |
| started working on farm that belongs to husband | |
| stayed on farm and then just started working here | |
| volunteer | |
| was transfered | |
| write a letter to the university |
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.