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General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_GHS_v02_M
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Statistics South Africa
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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Aug 14, 2017
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  • GHS 2016
    Household v1.1
    Stata11
  • GHS 2016 Person
    v1.1 Stata11

Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (Q46cRNSW)

Data file: GHS 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 72602
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 259
End: 260
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Awaiting the season for work 61
0.1%
2 Waiting to be recalled to former job 47
0.1%
3 Health reasons 220
0.3%
4 Pregnancy 79
0.1%
5 Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped) 40
0.1%
6 Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care) 392
0.5%
7 Undergoing training to help find work 16
0%
8 No jobs available in the area 2622
3.6%
9 Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work 266
0.4%
10 Unable to find work requiring his/her skills 211
0.3%
11 Lost hope of finding any kind of work 209
0.3%
12 No transport available 4
0%
13 Scholar or student 385
0.5%
14 Retired 57
0.1%
15 Too old/young to work 26
0%
16 Did not want to work 12
0%
17 Other 114
0.2%
88 Not applicable 46267
63.7%
99 Unspecified 21574
29.7%
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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