Survey of Activities of Young People 2019

South Africa, 2019

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ZAF_2019_SAYP_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Nov 01, 2021

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Data file: sayp-2019-v1

Overview

Valid: 108

Invalid: 13228

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 20

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 87

End: 88

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 20

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Completed schooling	5	4.6%
2	Too old for school	1	0.9%
4	Illness	12	11.1%
5	No school/school too far	1	0.9%
6	Cannot afford schooling	8	7.4%
8	Failed repeatedly	10	9.3%
9	Not interested/education not considered valuable	21	19.4%
10	School not safe	1	0.9%
12	To work	5	4.6%
14	Parent(s) died	6	5.6%
17	Pregnant	9	8.3%
19	Expelled	13	12%
20	Other, Specify��.	16	14.8%
Sysmiss		13228

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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