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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e4 - Methods taken to find current job (w3_a_em1inf)

Data file: Adult_W3_Anon_V3.0.0

Overview

Valid: 4683

Invalid: 17774

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 653

loc_end_pos: 654

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 10

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	1	0%
-8	Refused	1	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	0	0%
1	Saw an advert in a newspaper or on the internet	790	16.9%
2	Saw an advert on a notice board in a community centre/shopping centre, shop etc	295	6.3%
3	A household member told me about the job	258	5.5%
4	A friend/relative (in a different household) told me about the job	2221	47.4%
5	I went to a factory and waited for a job	329	7%
6	I knocked on factory gates and visited private homes and shops until I got the job	270	5.8%
7	Through an employment agency	117	2.5%
8	I asked someone who had employed me before about a job	218	4.7%
9	I waited on the side of the road	51	1.1%
10	Other (specify)	132	2.8%
Sysmiss		17774

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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