South African Social Attitudes Survey 2009
South Africa, 2009
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zaf-hsrc-sasas-2009-v1
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Q263 In this first job, what was your main occupation? (Q263)
Data file: sasas-2009-q1
Overview
Valid:
3143
Invalid:
162
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
843
loc_end_pos:
844
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | N.A. never had a job | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Legislators, snr officials, managers | 73 |
2.3%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 132 |
4.2%
|
| 3 | Technicians & associate professionals | 144 |
4.6%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 278 |
8.8%
|
| 5 | Service, shop & market sales workers | 367 |
11.7%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural & fishery | 135 |
4.3%
|
| 7 | Craft & related trades workers | 196 |
6.2%
|
| 8 | Plant & machine operators & assemblers | 108 |
3.4%
|
| 9 | Elementary occupations | 481 |
15.3%
|
| 15 | Informal sector,not specified | 1 |
0%
|
| 81 | Occupations unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| 82 | Unemployed,occupation unspecified | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 83 | occupation in informal sect,not class | 0 |
0%
|
| 84 | occupation not elsewhere classified | 0 |
0%
|
| 85 | occupation not adequately defined | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 86 | Self-employed | 30 |
1%
|
| 91 | Homemakers:Housewives,Househusbands | 144 |
4.6%
|
| 92 | Children,not scholars or students | 0 |
0%
|
| 93 | Scholars; Students | 72 |
2.3%
|
| 94 | Pensioners&other not economically.active,>65y | 0 |
0%
|
| 95 | Labour-Disabled,15 to 65 years | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 96 | Not economically active persons not elsewhere class | 1 |
0%
|
| 97 | Refused to answer | 25 |
0.8%
|
| 98 | Don’t know, inadequately described | 36 |
1.1%
|
| 99 | Not applicable, never had a job | 911 |
29%
|
| Sysmiss | 162 |
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.