General Household Survey 2022
South Africa, 2022
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2022-v1
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Statistics South Africa
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Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (lab_rnsw)
Data file: ghs-2022-person-v1
Overview
Valid:
1000
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awaiting the season for work | 10 |
1%
|
| 2 | Waiting to be recalled from a job | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Health reasons | 0 |
0%
|
| 4 | Pregnancy | 0 |
0%
|
| 5 | Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped) | 0 |
0%
|
| 6 | Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care) | 0 |
0%
|
| 7 | Undergoing training to help find work | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | No jobs available in the area | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work | 0 |
0%
|
| 10 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Lost hope of finding any kind of work | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | No transport available | 0 |
0%
|
| 13 | Scholar or student | 0 |
0%
|
| 14 | Retired | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | Too old/young to work | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | Did not want to work | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | OTHER REASON THAN ANY OF THE ABOVE | 0 |
0%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 982 |
98.2%
|
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.