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General Household Survey 2002

South Africa, 2002
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2002-v1.3
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Statistics South Africa
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Aug 29, 2011
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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

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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.
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