General Household Survey 2002
South Africa, 2002
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2002-v1.3
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Why not work (Q210ynot)
Data file: ghs-2002-worker-v1.3
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
49
loc_end_pos:
50
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 0 |
0%
|
| 2 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 41 |
4.1%
|
| 3 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 101 |
10.1%
|
| 4 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 51 |
5.1%
|
| 5 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 43 |
4.3%
|
| 6 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 53 |
5.3%
|
| 7 | Too young or too old to work | 64 |
6.4%
|
| 8 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 61 |
6.1%
|
| 10 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Recently retrenched | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 12 | Other reason | 47 |
4.7%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 520 |
52.1%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 8 |
0.8%
|
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.