General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Sector of organisation/business or branch (LAB_SECTOR)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-person-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	In the formal sector (registered to perform activity)	395	39.5%
2	In the informal sector (not registered to perform activity)	18	1.8%
3	Do not know	1	0.1%
8	Not applicable	585	58.6%

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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