General Household Survey 2021

South Africa, 2021

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" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business " (lab_rnsw)

Data file: ghs-2021-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: -

Type: Discrete

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
1	Awaiting the season for work
2	Waiting to be recalled to former job
3	Health reasons
4	Pregnancy
5	Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped)
6	Housewife/Homemaker (Family considerations/child care)
7	Undergoing training to help find work
8	No jobs available in the area
9	Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10	Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11	Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12	No transport available
13	Scholar or student
14	Retired/on pension/too old to work
15	Too young to work
16	Did not want to work
17	Other
88	Not applicable

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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" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business "

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" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business "

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