General Household Survey 2017

South Africa, 2017

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Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (Q46cRNSW)

Data file: GHS 2017 Person v1.0 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 224

loc_end_pos: 225

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Awaiting the season for work
2	Waiting to be recalled to former job
3	Health reasons
4	Pregnancy
5	Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped)
6	Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care)
7	Undergoing training to help find work
8	No jobs available in the area
9	Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10	Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11	Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12	No transport available
13	Scholar or student
14	Retired
15	Too old/young to work
16	Did not want to work
17	Other
18	Do not know
88	Not applicable
99	Unspecified

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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