Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8
South Africa, 2021
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Reference ID
ZAF_2021_AFB-R8_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Apr 19, 2023
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Q96c. Occupation of head of household (Q96C)
Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_saf_r8_en_2023-03-01.sav
Overview
Valid:
1600
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1185
End:
1186
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 114 |
7.1%
|
| 1 | Student | 12 |
0.8%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 38 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 32 |
2%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 19 |
1.2%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 35 |
2.2%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker) | 126 |
7.9%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker) | 91 |
5.7%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 10 |
0.6%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 21 |
1.3%
|
| 10 | Security services (police, army, private security) | 21 |
1.3%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer) | 44 |
2.8%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government | 35 |
2.2%
|
| 95 | Other | 113 |
7.1%
|
| 97 | Not Applicable | 842 |
52.6%
|
| 98 | Refused | 28 |
1.8%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 19 |
1.2%
|
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.