October Household Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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Means of support (Q3_38SUP)

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

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Valid: 974

Invalid: 25

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 44

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Did odd jobs during the past week	0	0%
2	Supported by persons in the household	621	63.8%
3	Supported by relatives not in the household.	72	7.4%
4	Supported by persons not in the household	83	8.5%
5	Supported by charity, church, welfare, etc.	12	1.2%
6	Unemployment benefit fund	7	0.7%
7	Savings or money previously earned	23	2.4%
8	Old age or disability pension	148	15.2%
9	Other e.g. bursary, study loan	8	0.8%
Sysmiss		25

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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