Afrobarometer Survey 2020
Round 8

Lesotho, 2020

Reference ID

LSO_2020_AFB-R8_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

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Afrobarometer

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Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)

Data file: afrobarometer_release-data_les_r8_en_2021-03-31.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9999

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1071

End: 1074

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 9999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never had a job	327	27.3%
1	Student	50	4.2%
2	Housewife / homemaker	135	11.3%
3	Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry	110	9.2%
4	Trader / hawker / vendor	91	7.6%
5	Retail / Shop	33	2.8%
6	Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker)	247	20.6%
7	Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker)	85	7.1%
8	Clerical or secretarial	4	0.3%
9	Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager	15	1.3%
10	Security services (police, army, private security)	18	1.5%
11	Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer)	51	4.3%
12	Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government	9	0.8%
9995	Other	14	1.2%
9998	Refused	10	0.8%
9999	Don’t know	1	0.1%

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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