South African Social Attitudes Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010

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Q168 Why, in your opinion, are there people who live in poverty? (Q168)

Data file: sasas-2010-q1

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Valid: 3151

Invalid: 32

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 455

loc_end_pos: 455

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Because they have been unlucky	599	19%
2	Because of laziness and lack of willpower	580	18.4%
3	Because there is much injustice in our society	1081	34.3%
4	Its an inevitable part of modern progress	447	14.2%
5	None of these	268	8.5%
8	Do not know	176	5.6%
Sysmiss		32

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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