National Income Dynamics Study 2012, Wave 3

South Africa, 2012

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zaf-saldru-nids-2012-v3.0.0

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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? (w3_a_emact1yrago)

Data file: Adult_W3_Anon_V3.0.0

Overview

Valid: 18689

Invalid: 3768

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 643

loc_end_pos: 644

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	6	0%
-8	Refused	4	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	2	0%
1	Working for pay	4840	25.9%
2	Self-employed	471	2.5%
3	Working on own plot or looking after livestock	21	0.1%
4	Helping another family member with their business, without pay	34	0.2%
5	Full-time scholar or student at school, university, college or another educational institution	3349	17.9%
6	Homemaker (looking after children / others / home)	1063	5.7%
7	Long term sick or disabled	567	3%
8	Retired	1362	7.3%
9	Unemployed and actively searching for a job	3681	19.7%
10	Unemployed but not actively searching for a job	3289	17.6%
11	Other	0	0%
Sysmiss		3768

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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