National Income Dynamics Study 2012, Wave 3

South Africa, 2012

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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_1 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 1 (w3_a_unems1)

Data file: Adult_W3_Anon_V3.0.0

Overview

Valid: 2794

Invalid: 19663

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1082

loc_end_pos: 1083

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Registered at an employment agency	457	16.4%
2	Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers	1185	42.4%
3	Placed advertisement(s)	157	5.6%
4	Answered advertisements	238	8.5%
5	Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet	52	1.9%
6	Sought assistance from relatives or friends	498	17.8%
7	Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming	7	0.3%
8	Waited at the side of the road	27	1%
9	Sought financial assistance to start a business	9	0.3%
10	Other	7	0.3%
11	Nothing	157	5.6%
Sysmiss		19663

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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