Khayelitsha Mitchell's Plain Survey 2000

South Africa, 2000

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ZAF_2000_KMP_v01_M

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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D.16. How did you get this job? (d16)

Data file: kmp2000merged

Overview

Valid: 1377

Invalid: 3607

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 3594

End: 3596

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 996

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Responded to a newspaper advertisement	51	3.7%
2	2. HH member told me about the job	213	15.5%
3	3. Friend/ relative,different HH, told me about the job	475	34.5%
4	4. HH member got me job at their workplace	59	4.3%
5	5. Friend/ rel.,diff. HH, job at their workplace	131	9.5%
6	6. Went to a factory and waited outside until I got the job	159	11.5%
7	7. Knocked on factory gates and visited private homes and shops until I got the job.	136	9.9%
8	8. Got job through an employment agency	47	3.4%
9	9. Asked someone who had employed me before for a job	4	0.3%
10	10. Waited on the side of the road until I got a job (the recruiting lorry method)	13	0.9%
11	11. Found the job on a notice boards in a community centres/ shopping centre, shop etc.	2	0.1%
996	996. Other	87	6.3%
Sysmiss		3607

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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