Labour Force Survey 2004, March
South Africa, 2004
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Reference ID
ZAF_2004_LFS-MAR_v02_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Data file: LFS 2004_1 Worker_v2
Overview
Valid:
67711
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 40 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 10893 |
16.1%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 2882 |
4.3%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 1142 |
1.7%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 3449 |
5.1%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 6132 |
9.1%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 119 |
0.2%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 1547 |
2.3%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 14426 |
21.3%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 611 |
0.9%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 40 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 432 |
0.6%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 1151 |
1.7%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 24803 |
36.6%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 44 |
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.