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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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jan 27, 2012

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E.4. How did you get this job (e4)

Data file: kmp2000merged

Overview

Valid: 871

Invalid: 4113

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 4549

End: 4551

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 996

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Responded to a newspaper advertisement	77	8.8%
2	2. HH member told me about the job	77	8.8%
3	3. Friend/ relative,different HH, told me about the job	304	34.9%
4	4. HH member got me job at their workplace	32	3.7%
5	5. Friend/ rel.,diff. HH, job at their workplace	83	9.5%
6	6. Went to a factory and waited outside until I got the job	87	10%
7	7. Knocked on factory gates and visited private homes and shops until I got the job.	68	7.8%
8	8. Got job through an employment agency	30	3.4%
9	9. Asked someone who had employed me before for a job	23	2.6%
10	10. Waited on the side of the road until I got a job (the recruiting lorry method)	3	0.3%
11	11. Found the job on a notice boards in a community centres/ shopping centre, shop etc.	5	0.6%
996	996. Other	82	9.4%
Sysmiss		4113

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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