National Income Dynamics Study 2010-2011, Wave 2

South Africa, 2010 - 2011

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zaf-saldru-nids-2010-2011-v4.0.0

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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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e1 - Which one of the following best describes what you were doing one year ago? (w2_a_emact1yrago)

Data file: Adult_W2_Anon_V4.0.0

Overview

Valid: 17625

Invalid: 4249

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 657

loc_end_pos: 658

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	18	0.1%
-8	Refused	81	0.5%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	132	0.7%
1	Working for pay	4287	24.3%
2	Self-employed	514	2.9%
3	Working on own plot or looking after livestock	66	0.4%
4	Helping another family member with their business, without pay	61	0.3%
5	Full-time scholar or student at school, university, college or another educational institution	3238	18.4%
6	Homemaker (looking after children / others / home)	1318	7.5%
7	Long term sick or disabled	571	3.2%
8	Retired	1048	5.9%
9	Unemployed and actively searching for a job	3346	19%
10	Unemployed but not actively searching for a job	2930	16.6%
11	Other, specify	15	0.1%
Sysmiss		4249

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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