General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

Get Microdata

Reference ID

zaf-statssa-ghs-2016-v1.1

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collections

General Household Survey African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jul 27, 2017

Last modified

Dec 14, 2021

Page views

110662

Downloads

25184

Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (Q46cRNSW)

Data file: GHS 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: -

Invalid: -

Type: Discrete

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Awaiting the season for work
2	Waiting to be recalled to former job
3	Health reasons
4	Pregnancy
5	Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped)
6	Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care)
7	Undergoing training to help find work
8	No jobs available in the area
9	Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10	Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11	Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12	No transport available
13	Scholar or student
14	Retired
15	Too old/young to work
16	Did not want to work
17	Other
88	Not applicable
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.

Description

Source of information

Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business

Imputation and derivation

Imputation

Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business

Others

Security

Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business

Back to Catalog