October Household Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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zaf-statssa-ohs-1998-v1.2

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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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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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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