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_16 - Main reason respondent did not enrol in 2016 (w5_a_ed16ex)

Data file: adult_w5_anon_v1.0.0

Overview

Valid: 202

Invalid: 797

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2371

loc_end_pos: 2372

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	23	11.4%
2	Wanted to look for a job	49	24.3%
3	Was pregnant/had a baby	17	8.4%
4	Was needed at home	9	4.5%
5	Was ill/sick	4	2%
6	Got a job/ work	71	35.1%
7	Grades were very poor/was not allowed to continue	2	1%
8	Suspended/expelled	1	0.5%
9	Education is useless or uninteresting	4	2%
11	Finished school/education	19	9.4%
12	Other (specify)	3	1.5%
Sysmiss		797

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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