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South African Social Attitudes Survey 2011

South Africa, 2011
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Q169 Why, in your opinion, are there people who live in poverty? Here are four o (Q169)

Data file: sasas-2011-q1

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Valid: 2990
Invalid: 67
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_start_pos: 473
loc_end_pos: 473
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Because they have been unlucky 540
18.1%
2 Because of laziness and lack of willpower 598
20%
3 Because there is much injustice in our society 921
30.8%
4 Its an inevitable part of modern progress 362
12.1%
5 None of these 385
12.9%
8 Do not know 184
6.2%
Sysmiss 67
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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