Labour Force Survey 2005, September
South Africa, 2005
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Reference ID
ZAF_2005_LFS-SEP_v02_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
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Jan 27, 2012
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Data file: LFS 2005_2 Worker_v1
Overview
Valid:
73847
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
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 | 78 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 12686 |
17.2%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 2427 |
3.3%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 927 |
1.3%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 4352 |
5.9%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 6948 |
9.4%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 212 |
0.3%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 1448 |
2%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 16060 |
21.7%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 362 |
0.5%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 48 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 305 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 1037 |
1.4%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 26674 |
36.1%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 283 |
0.4%
|
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.