Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2012, Third Quarter

South Africa, 2012

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Reference ID

ZAF_2012_QLFS-Q3_v02_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 26, 2013

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Reason for not working (Q35YNOTWRK)

Data file: QLFS_2012_03_rwt2013_F1

Overview

Valid: 85760

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 57

End: 57

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What was the main reason you did not want to work last week (Monday to Sunday)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not applicable	60349	70.4%
1	Scholar or student	9584	11.2%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	4224	4.9%
3	Health reasons	2999	3.5%
4	Retired or too old for work	7600	8.9%
5	No desire to work	271	0.3%
6	Too young to work	115	0.1%
7	Pregnancy	70	0.1%
8	Disabled or unable to work	294	0.3%
9	Unspecified	254	0.3%

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.

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All household members aged 15 years and older, who did not work and did not have a job to return to in the last seven days prior to the interview.

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