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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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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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  • GHS 2007
    Worker_v1

Main occupation (occup)

Data file: GHS 2007 Worker_v1

Overview

Valid: 74741
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 75
End: 76
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 1400
1.9%
2 Professionals 1219
1.6%
3 Technical and associate professionals 2248
3%
4 Clerks 2243
3%
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 3117
4.2%
6 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 841
1.1%
7 Craft and related trades workers 3594
4.8%
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 2511
3.4%
9 Elementary Occupation 6919
9.3%
10 Domestic workers 2379
3.2%
88 Not applicable 48231
64.5%
99 Unspecified 39
0.1%
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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