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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eg11_1 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 1 (w5_a_unems1)

Data file: adult_w5_anon_v1.0.0

Overview

Valid: 92

Invalid: 907

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1265

loc_end_pos: 1266

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Registered at an employment agency	10	10.9%
2	Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers	27	29.3%
3	Placed advertisement(s)	9	9.8%
4	Answered advertisements	10	10.9%
5	Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet	5	5.4%
6	Sought assistance from relatives or friends	19	20.7%
7	Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming	0	0%
8	Waited at the side of the road	1	1.1%
9	Sought financial assistance to start a business	0	0%
10	Other	0	0%
11	Nothing	11	12%
Sysmiss		907

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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