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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Statistics South Africa African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Data file: lmdsa-2018-v1.0

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Valid: 1019

Invalid: 8980

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 67

loc_end_pos: 68

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	84	8.2%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	27	2.6%
3	Pregnancy	25	2.5%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	6	0.6%
5	Going to school	20	2%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	676	66.3%
7	Changed residence	16	1.6%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	62	6.1%
9	Retired/ too old to work	84	8.2%
10	Other	19	1.9%
99	Unspecified	0	0%
Sysmiss		8980

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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