South African Social Attitudes Survey 2008
South Africa, 2008
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zaf-hsrc-sasas-2008-v1
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Q235 What is your current occupation? (Q235)
Data file: sasas-2008-q1
Overview
Valid:
3215
Invalid:
106
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
1185
loc_end_pos:
1186
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | N.A. never had a job | 672 |
20.9%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 18 |
0.6%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 210 |
6.5%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 63 |
2%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 143 |
4.4%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 336 |
10.5%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 10 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 120 |
3.7%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 134 |
4.2%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 585 |
18.2%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 0 |
0%
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occupation unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| 83 | occupation in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | occupation not elsewhere classified | 0 |
0%
|
| 85 | Occupation not adequately defined | 63 |
2%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 78 |
2.4%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,House husbands | 144 |
4.5%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 0 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 363 |
11.3%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not econ.active,>65y | 140 |
4.4%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 to 65 years | 24 |
0.7%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 1 |
0%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 87 |
2.7%
|
| 98 | Don’t know, inadequately described | 18 |
0.6%
|
| Sysmiss | 106 |
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.