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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h16_17 - Main reason respondent did not enrol in 2017 (w5_a_ed17curex)

Data file: adult_w5_anon_v1.0.0

Overview

Valid: 229

Invalid: 770

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2250

loc_end_pos: 2251

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 12

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	0	0%
-8	Refused	0	0%
-5	Not applicable	0	0%
-3	Missing	0	0%
1	Could not afford to stay at school	27	11.8%
2	Wanted to look for a job	57	24.9%
3	Was pregnant/had a baby	21	9.2%
4	Was needed at home	5	2.2%
5	Was ill/sick	4	1.7%
6	Got a job/ work	79	34.5%
7	Grades were very poor/was not allowed to continue	2	0.9%
8	Suspended/expelled	1	0.4%
9	Education is useless or uninteresting	5	2.2%
11	Finished school/education	20	8.7%
12	Other (specify)	8	3.5%
Sysmiss		770

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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