Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2018

South Africa, 2018

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zaf-statssa-lmdsa-2018-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Labour Force Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Jul 13, 2020

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Data file: lmdsa-2018-v1.0

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Valid: 2699

Invalid: 7300

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 56

loc_end_pos: 56

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	823	30.5%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	459	17%
3	Health reasons	264	9.8%
4	Retired or too old for work	964	35.7%
5	No desire to work	56	2.1%
6	Too young to work	22	0.8%
7	Pregnancy	13	0.5%
8	Disabled or unable to work	62	2.3%
9	Unspecified	36	1.3%
Sysmiss		7300

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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