South African Social Attitudes Survey 2008
South Africa, 2008
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zaf-hsrc-sasas-2008-v1
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Q168 If your spouse or partner is employed, what is his/her current occupation? (q168)
Data file: sasas-2008-q2
Overview
Valid:
3208
Invalid:
84
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
928
loc_end_pos:
929
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Not applicable – no spouse, no partner | 1934 |
60.3%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 13 |
0.4%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 136 |
4.2%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 56 |
1.7%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 112 |
3.5%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 166 |
5.2%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 94 |
2.9%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 119 |
3.7%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 272 |
8.5%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 0 |
0%
|
| 46 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occup unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| 83 | Occup in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | Occup not elsewhere classified | 0 |
0%
|
| 85 | Occup not adequately defined | 72 |
2.2%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 46 |
1.4%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,Househusbands | 80 |
2.5%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 0 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 12 |
0.4%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not econ.active,>65y | 37 |
1.2%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 to 65 years | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 0 |
0%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 32 |
1%
|
| 98 | Don’t know, inadequately described | 16 |
0.5%
|
| Sysmiss | 84 |
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.