South African Social Attitudes Survey 2009
South Africa, 2009
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zaf-hsrc-sasas-2009-v1
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Q257 When you were 15 years old, what kind of work did your father do; what was (Q257)
Data file: sasas-2009-q1
Overview
Valid:
3257
Invalid:
48
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
791
loc_end_pos:
792
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | N.A. never had a job | 1 |
0%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 145 |
4.5%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 84 |
2.6%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 94 |
2.9%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 56 |
1.7%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 192 |
5.9%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 355 |
10.9%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 291 |
8.9%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 243 |
7.5%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 392 |
12%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 0 |
0%
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occupation unspecified | 1 |
0%
|
| 83 | occupation in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | occupation not elsewhere classified | 0 |
0%
|
| 85 | occupation not adequately defined | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 84 |
2.6%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,Househusbands | 40 |
1.2%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 0 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not economically.active,>65y | 5 |
0.2%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 to 65 years | 0 |
0%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 0 |
0%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 128 |
3.9%
|
| 98 | Don’t know, inadequately described | 634 |
19.5%
|
| 99 | Not applicable, never had a job | 503 |
15.4%
|
| Sysmiss | 48 |
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.