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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c1 - Current activities (w1_p_emactcur_u)

Data file: Proxy_W1_Anon_V7.0.0

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Valid: 1750

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 97

Range: -9 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	0	0%
-3	Missing	0	0%
1	Working for pay	668	38.2%
2	Self-employed	77	4.4%
3	Working on own plot or looking after livestock	8	0.5%
4	Helping another family member with their business, without pay	18	1%
5	Full-time scholar or student at school, university, college or another educational institution	229	13.1%
6	Homemaker (looking after children / others / home)	32	1.8%
7	Long term sick or disabled	190	10.9%
8	Retired	87	5%
9	Unemployed	441	25.2%

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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