General Household Survey 2007
South Africa, 2007
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Reference ID
ZAF_2007_GHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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Reason for not working (q213ynot)
Data file: GHS 2007 Worker_v1
Overview
Valid:
74741
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
64
End:
65
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
2.13 Why did ...... not work during the past seven days?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 137 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 12792 |
17.1%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 2831 |
3.8%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 743 |
1%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 4513 |
6%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 8428 |
11.3%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 205 |
0.3%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 1394 |
1.9%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 15150 |
20.3%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 361 |
0.5%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 49 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 196 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 1146 |
1.5%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 5652 |
7.6%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 21144 |
28.3%
|
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.