National Income Dynamics Study 2017, Wave 5 Secure Data
South Africa, 2017
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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_secure_v1.0.0
Overview
Valid:
3031
Invalid:
27079
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
2279
loc_end_pos:
2280
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Registered at an employment agency | 398 |
13.1%
|
| 2 | Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers | 1072 |
35.4%
|
| 3 | Placed advertisement(s) | 216 |
7.1%
|
| 4 | Answered advertisements | 284 |
9.4%
|
| 5 | Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet | 158 |
5.2%
|
| 6 | Sought assistance from relatives or friends | 524 |
17.3%
|
| 7 | Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming | 34 |
1.1%
|
| 8 | Waited at the side of the road | 28 |
0.9%
|
| 9 | Sought financial assistance to start a business | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Other | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Nothing | 312 |
10.3%
|
| Sysmiss | 27079 |
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.