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General Household Survey 2003

South Africa, 2003
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2003-v1.4
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Oct 10, 2011
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Reason for not working (Q211YnotW)

Data file: ghs-2003-worker-v1.4

Overview

Valid: 998
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_start_pos: 51
loc_end_pos: 52
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 Scholar or student and prefers not to work 39
3.9%
3 Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work 106
10.6%
4 Retired and prefers not to seek formal work 38
3.8%
5 Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) 85
8.5%
6 Too young or too old to work 51
5.1%
7 Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer 20
2%
8 Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs 0
0%
9 Cannot find any work 82
8.2%
10 Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) 1
0.1%
11 Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract 6
0.6%
12 Recently retrenched 43
4.3%
88 Not applicable 3
0.3%
99 Unspecified 524
52.5%
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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