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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e79_3 - Steps taken to search for work or to start a business - 3 (w2_a_unems3)

Data file: Adult_W2_Anon_V4.0.0

Overview

Valid: 538

Invalid: 21336

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1289

loc_end_pos: 1290

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	0	0%
-8	Refused	0	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	0	0%
1	Registered at an employment agency	0	0%
2	Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers	0	0%
3	Placed advertisement(s)	83	15.4%
4	Answered advertisements	76	14.1%
5	Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet	87	16.2%
6	Sought assistance from relatives or friends	202	37.5%
7	Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming	24	4.5%
8	Waited at the side of the road	52	9.7%
9	Sought financial assistance to start a business	11	2%
10	Other (specify)	3	0.6%
11	Nothing	0	0%
Sysmiss		21336

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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