Employers and Self Employed Series 2001-2013

South Africa, 2001 - 2013

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Main reason the business did not operate in some months? (whynooperate)

Data file: ess-2001-2013-v1.3

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 54

loc_end_pos: 55

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
1	1. Seasonal factors
2	2. Family reasons (e.g. sick child)
3	3. No customers
4	4. Sickness of yourself or staff
5	5. Non payment of govt taxes/charges
6	6. Other personal reasons than sickness (eg pregnancy)
7	7. Lack of raw materials
8	8. Lack of funds to buy supplies
9	9. No one to help during owner’s absence
10	10. Business created during the past 12 months
11	11. Due to violence or criminal incident/s
12	12. Other
88	88. Not applicable
99	99. Unspecified

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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