Survey of Activities of Young People 2015
South Africa, 2015
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Reason left school (Q212Whyleft)
Data file: sayp-2015-v1
Overview
Valid:
162
Invalid:
13478
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
2
Width:
5
Range:
1 - 20
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Completed schooling | 3 |
1.9%
|
| 3 | Disabled | 6 |
3.7%
|
| 4 | illness | 15 |
9.3%
|
| 5 | No school/school too far | 3 |
1.9%
|
| 6 | Cannot afford schooling | 10 |
6.2%
|
| 7 | Family did not allow schooling | 1 |
0.6%
|
| 8 | Failed repeatedly | 23 |
14.2%
|
| 9 | Not interested/education not considered valuable | 36 |
22.2%
|
| 10 | School not safe | 1 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | To work | 3 |
1.9%
|
| 13 | To help at home with household tasks | 2 |
1.2%
|
| 14 | Parent(s) died | 3 |
1.9%
|
| 15 | to look after siblings | 1 |
0.6%
|
| 17 | Pregnant | 24 |
14.8%
|
| 18 | looking after own children | 3 |
1.9%
|
| 19 | Expelled | 7 |
4.3%
|
| 20 | Other, Specify……. | 21 |
13%
|
| Sysmiss | 13478 |
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.