Longitudinal Socioeconomic Study of Refugees and Host Communities 2022-2024
Wave 1 and 2
Kenya, 2022 - 2024
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3. Main reason for not looking for work or starting a business in the last month (a8_b_not_looking_why)
Data file: hhm
Overview
Valid:
32556
Minimum:
-77
Maximum:
20
Type:
Discrete
Width:
51
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| -77 | Other |
| 1 | No jobs available in the area, |
| 2 | Unable to work (incapacitated), |
| 3 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills, |
| 4 | home maker (housewife/family responsibilities), |
| 5 | discouraged worker, |
| 6 | child care problems, |
| 7 | employers think too old/too young to work, |
| 8 | full time student / pupil, |
| 9 | awaiting the season for work, |
| 10 | waiting to be recalled to former job, |
| 11 | have already found a job which will start later, |
| 12 | transportation problems, |
| 13 | pregnancy, |
| 14 | sickness/injury, |
| 15 | dont need work, |
| 16 | business closed, |
| 17 | retired, |
| 18 | waiting to attend an interview, |
| 19 | Lack of work permit or other documents |
| 20 | Lack of capital |
| 21 | other (specify) |
| a | Don't know |
| b | Refused to answer |
| c | Outlier set to missing |
| d | Dropped during anonymization (available on request) |
| e | Skipped in error |
| m | Not available in wave |
| z | Not applicable |
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.