Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2021

South Africa, 2021

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Sep 18, 2023

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How long been trying to find work (Q36TIMESEEK)

Data file: lmdsa-2021-v2

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Valid: 20719

Invalid: 161833

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 57

loc_end_pos: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	1941	9.4%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	1056	5.1%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	827	4%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	1005	4.9%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	5115	24.7%
6	3 years - 5 years	3121	15.1%
7	More than 5 years	7573	36.6%
8	Do not know	81	0.4%
Sysmiss		161833

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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