General Household Survey 2008
South Africa, 2008
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-v1.4
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Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-worker-v1.4
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
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 | 99 |
9.9%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 47 |
4.7%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 32 |
3.2%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 57 |
5.7%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 63 |
6.3%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 10 |
1%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 125 |
12.5%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 8 |
0.8%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 11 |
1.1%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 40 |
4%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 38 |
3.8%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 458 |
45.9%
|
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.