Afrobarometer Survey 2024
Round 10

Lesotho, 2024

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LSO_2024_AFB-R10_v01_M

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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi in Kenya

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Afrobarometer

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Jun 18, 2025

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Q94e. Main barrier to women's employment (Q94E)

Data file: LES_R10.Data_27May24.wtd_.final_.release_updated.13Feb25.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 944

End: 945

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Women do not face barriers to entering or moving up in the workforce	76	6.3%
1	It is not socially accepted for women to work outside the home.	98	8.2%
2	Women lack the necessary education or skills	157	13.1%
3	Lack of childcare	231	19.3%
4	Employers prefer to hire men	428	35.7%
5	Lack of remote or flexible work arrangements	88	7.3%
6	Some other barrier	57	4.8%
8	Refused to Answer	0	0%
9	Don’t know	65	5.4%

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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