Graduate Destination Survey 2012

South Africa, 2012

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Q3.4.7 What was the main reason for you being self-employed in the job you had o (q3_4_7)

Data file: gds-2012-20130605

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 221

loc_end_pos: 221

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
1	I preferred to be my own boss or have my own business, company or practice
2	I took over a family business
3	I wanted to work from home
4	I could make more money
5	I lost my job
6	I could not find a job
7	Other

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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