National Income Dynamics Study 2017, Wave 5

South Africa, 2017

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zaf-saldru-nids-2017-v1.0.0

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit,

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National Income Dynamics Study African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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Aug 28, 2018

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eb3 - How did you find this job? (w5_a_em1inf)

Data file: adult_w5_anon_v1.0.0

Overview

Valid: 253

Invalid: 746

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 723

loc_end_pos: 724

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 10

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	0	0%
-8	Refused	0	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	1	0.4%
1	Saw an advert in a newspaper or on the internet	39	15.4%
2	Saw an advert on a notice board in a community centre/shopping centre, shop etc	17	6.7%
3	A household member told me about the job	11	4.3%
4	A friend/relative (in a different household) told me about the job	115	45.5%
5	I went to a factory and waited for a job	23	9.1%
6	I knocked on factory gates and visited private homes and shops until I got the job	7	2.8%
7	Through an employment agency	9	3.6%
8	I asked someone who had employed me before about a job	15	5.9%
9	I waited on the side of the road	2	0.8%
10	Other (specify)	14	5.5%
Sysmiss		746

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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