General Household Survey 2023
South Africa, 2023
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Reference ID
ZAF_2023_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Aug 11, 2025
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- ghs-2023-person-v1
- ghs-2023-hhold-v1
Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (lab_rnsw)
Data file: ghs-2023-person-v1
Overview
Valid:
1000
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
57
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Awaiting the season for work | 9 |
0.9%
|
| 2 | 2. Waiting to be recalled from a job | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | 3. Health reasons | 0 |
0%
|
| 4 | 4. Pregnancy | 0 |
0%
|
| 5 | 5. Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | 6. Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care) | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | 7. Undergoing training to help find work | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | 8. No jobs available in the area | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 9 | 9. Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work | 0 |
0%
|
| 10 | 10. Unable to find work requiring his/her skills | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | 11. Lost hope of finding any kind of work | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | 12. No transport available | 0 |
0%
|
| 13 | 13. Scholar or student | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 14 | 14. Retired | 0 |
0%
|
| 15 | 15. Too old/young to work | 0 |
0%
|
| 16 | 16. Did not want to work | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | 17. OTHER REASON THAN ANY OF THE ABOVE | 0 |
0%
|
| 88 | 88. Not applicable | 975 |
97.5%
|
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.