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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eg11_1 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 1 (w4_a_unems1)

Data file: Adult_W4_Anon_V2.0.0

Overview

Valid: 3056

Invalid: 23748

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2125

loc_end_pos: 2126

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Registered at an employment agency	435	14.2%
2	Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers	1021	33.4%
3	Placed advertisement(s)	271	8.9%
4	Answered advertisements	314	10.3%
5	Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet	101	3.3%
6	Sought assistance from relatives or friends	539	17.6%
7	Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming	12	0.4%
8	Waited at the side of the road	41	1.3%
9	Sought financial assistance to start a business	8	0.3%
10	Other	6	0.2%
11	Nothing	308	10.1%
Sysmiss		23748

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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