National Income Dynamics Study 2014-2015, Wave 4

South Africa, 2014 - 2015

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zaf-saldru-nids-2014-2015-v2.0.0

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit,

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National Income Dynamics Study African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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ea1 - Which one of the following best describes what you were doing one year ago (w4_a_emact1yrago)

Data file: Adult_W4_Anon_V2.0.0

Overview

Valid: 22740

Invalid: 4064

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1007

loc_end_pos: 1008

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	4	0%
-8	Refused	0	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	13	0.1%
1	Working for pay	6852	30.1%
2	Self-employed	711	3.1%
3	Working on own plot or looking after livestock	48	0.2%
4	Helping another family member with their business, without pay	37	0.2%
5	Full-time scholar or student at school, university, college or another educational institution	4172	18.3%
6	Homemaker (looking after children/others/home)	1764	7.8%
7	Long term sick or disabled	639	2.8%
8	Retired	1803	7.9%
9	Unemployed and actively searching for a job	4005	17.6%
10	Unemployed but not actively searching for a job	2548	11.2%
11	Other	144	0.6%
Sysmiss		4064

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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