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General Household Survey 2013

South Africa, 2013
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ZAF_2013_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Sep 18, 2014
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Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (Q46cRNSW)

Data file: ghs-2013-person-v1-20140620

Overview

Valid: 93749
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 209
End: 210
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Awaiting the season for work 72
0.1%
2 Waiting to be recalled to former job 56
0.1%
3 Health reasons 269
0.3%
4 Pregnancy 77
0.1%
5 Disabled or Unable to work (Handicapped) 62
0.1%
6 Housewife/Homemaker (Family considerations/child care) 507
0.5%
7 Undergoing training to help fi nd work 34
0%
8 No jobs available in the area 3109
3.3%
9 Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work 493
0.5%
10 Unable to fi nd work requiring his/her skills 294
0.3%
11 Lost hope of fi nding any kind of work 315
0.3%
12 No transport available 12
0%
13 Scholar or student 463
0.5%
14 Retired 26
0%
15 Too old/young to work 103
0.1%
16 Did not want to work 14
0%
17 Other 202
0.2%
88 Not applicable 61146
65.2%
99 Unspecified 26495
28.3%
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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