General Household Survey 2004
South Africa, 2004
Statistics South Africa
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Data file: ghs-2004-worker-v1.4
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_width:
2
var_range:
1 - 99
var_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 | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 98 |
9.8%
|
| 3 | Housewife / homemaker and prefers not to work | 44 |
4.4%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 65 |
6.5%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 58 |
5.8%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 29 |
2.9%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 114 |
11.4%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 10 |
1%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Retrenched | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 51 |
5.1%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 513 |
51.4%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 1 |
0.1%
|
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.