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October Household Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998
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zaf-statssa-ohs-1998-v1.2
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Nov 22, 2010
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  • ohs-1998
    births-v1.1
  • ohs-1998-children-v1.2
  • ohs-1998-deaths-v1.1
  • ohs-1998-domestic-v1.1
  • ohs-1998-genpsu-duplicates-dropped-v1
  • ohs-1998-genspu-v1.1
  • ohs-1998-house-v1.2
  • ohs-1998-migrant-v1.2
  • ohs-1998-migration-v1.1
  • ohs-1998-person-v1.2
  • ohs-1998-worker-v1.2

Reason not worked (Q3_37NOT)

Data file: ohs-1998-worker-v1.2

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Valid: 858
Invalid: 141
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 67
Range: 1 - 11
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs 172
20%
2 Has found a job, but only starting at a definite date in the future 2
0.2%
3 Scholar or student, prefers not to work 352
41%
4 Housewife/homemaker, prefers not to work 108
12.6%
5 Retired and prefers not to seek formal work 65
7.6%
6 Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) 13
1.5%
7 Too young or to old to work 67
7.8%
8 Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer 5
0.6%
9 Cannot find suitable work 68
7.9%
10 Contract worker e.g. mine worker resting according to contract 2
0.2%
11 Other reason 4
0.5%
Sysmiss 141
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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