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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)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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May 01, 2014
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  • LFS 2005_2
    Migrant_v1
  • LFS 2005_2
    Person_v1
  • LFS 2005_2
    Worker_v1

Why not look for work (Q311RsnN)

Data file: LFS 2005_2 Worker_v1

Overview

Valid: 73847
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Has been temporarily laid off work 39
0.1%
2 Ill health/injury/physical disability 263
0.4%
3 Pregnancy 189
0.3%
4 Family considerations/child care 633
0.9%
5 Undergoing training to help find work 96
0.1%
6 No jobs available in the area 5166
7%
7 Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work 1248
1.7%
8 Unable to find work requiring his/her skills 269
0.4%
9 Lost hope of finding any kind of work 721
1%
10 No transport available 34
0%
11 Other reason 347
0.5%
88 Not applicable 64546
87.4%
99 Unspecified 296
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.
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