Demographic and Health Survey 2016
South Africa

South Africa, 2016

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zaf-doh-statssa-dhs-2016-v1

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National Department of Health, Medical Research Council, Statistics South Africa

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occupation (mv716)

Data file: ZACR71FL

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2092

loc_end_pos: 2095

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 9998

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
0	not working and didn't work in last 12 months
1	legislators, senior officials and managers
2	professionals
3	technicians and associate professionals
4	clerks
5	service workers and shop and market sales workers
6	skilled agriculture and fishery workers
7	craft and related trades workers
8	plant and machine operators and assemblers
9	elementary occupations
10	domestic workers
11	agricultural unskilled
9998	don't know/not classified

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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