Khayelitsha Mitchell's Plain Survey 2000
South Africa, 2000
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C.7. If head was unemployed/retired, what kind of work did he/she do? (c7)
Data file: kmp2000adult_15
Overview
Valid:
358
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1138
End:
1217
Width:
80
Range:
-
Format:
character
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUILDER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| BUILDER, BRICKLAYER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| BUTCHERY WORKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CAN'T RECALL | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CAN'T REMEMBER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CLEANER @ HOSPITAL | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CONSTRUCTION | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CONSTRUCTION CO. WORKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CONSTRUCTION LABOURER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| CONSTRUCTION WORKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cashier in supermarket | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DIGGING TRENCHES FOR CABLE INSTALLATION | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DOESN'T KNOW | 6 |
1.7%
|
|
| DOMESTIC | 13 |
3.6%
|
|
| DOMESTIC WORKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DON'T KNOW | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DRESS MAKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DRIVER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Domestic Work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Domestic Worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Don't Know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Don't know | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| ECONO WINDOW | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| ESCORTING PRISONERS | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Econo Window - install windows | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| FARM LABOURER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| FARM WORKER | 4 |
1.1%
|
|
| FIELD PLOUGHER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| FISHERMAN | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| FLOWER DYEING AND SELLING, AND SALE OF THATCH | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| GRANDMOTHER WAS A PENSIONER BY THEN | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| GROWING VEG. | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| Gardner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Growing vegetables for the family to eat. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| HERDER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| HOTEL - COOK | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| HOUSEWIFE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was a farm worker taking care of livestock eg. cattle, sheep | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was a pensioner. He never worked before. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was constructing a dam as a labourer. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was digging a quarry | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was never employed. He used to sell his sheep. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was unemployed and depended on his mother. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He was working in a factory(cape town). | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He worked at Sasol in Johannesburg | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| He worked in a mine as an electrician. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Heavy duty driver | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Her grandmother depended on her pension for food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Her grandmother was getting pension | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Housewife | 4 |
1.1%
|
|
| LABOURER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LAW FIRM CLERK | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LIVESTOCK | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LOOK AFTER THE CHILDREN | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| MINE WORKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| MINER | 4 |
1.1%
|
|
| Mail messenger | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Metal industry | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| N/A | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NEVER WORKED | 16 |
4.5%
|
|
| NO PREVIOUS EMPLOY | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NURSE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NURSING WORK | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Never been employed | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| Never been employed. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Never employed | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| Never worked | 15 |
4.2%
|
|
| Never worked but had cattle, goats and sheep working on the land. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Never worked-disabled | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No, we had subsistence farming. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| OFFICE CLEANER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| PACKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| PAINTER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Private house doing washing, cleaning the house and ironing. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| RAILWAY CONDUCTOR | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| RECEPTIONIST | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| RESPONDENT DOESN'T KNOW | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Received a state pension | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SECURITY GUARD | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| SECURITY OF NEWLY BUILT PLACES | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SHE WAS A CLEANER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SHOEMAKER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SPOORNET - REPAIRMAN | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Self- employed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She looked after the children and cultivated crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She never worked | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She never worked. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She never worked. She is a pensioner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was a cleaner for a shop. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was a domestic worker. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was a housewife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was domestic wife who plough fields and do other household chores. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was not working but dependent on her husband on his pension. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She was self employed - dressmaker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Soldier in the navy | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Spornet sweeping tthe train | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Subsistence Farming | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| Suffering from TB. Received a pension. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| TAXI DRIVER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| TRUCK DRIVER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| UNEMPLOYED | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| WAITRESS | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| WOOD SALES | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Was a builder | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Was never employed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked and then retired. Stayed at home | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked at a parcel counter. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked at the docks in Cape Town | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked for a dairy company. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked for the railways. Cleaned trains and railway tracks. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked in a brewery | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked in a fertiliser producing company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Worked in mines using a shovel | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| ` | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| baking bread at enterprise. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| boiling steel, trade union | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't remember infect does n't know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| children give her money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cleaner at the hospital | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cleaning offices at the royal house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cleaning spoornet | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cleaning strees for cape city council | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| construction-plasterer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| constructor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| council | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| deceased | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| depended on cattle for survival | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| digging gold | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not know | 5 |
1.4%
|
|
| do not know whether her mother was employed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| does not remember but it was farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| domestic duties | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| domestic services | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| domestic work | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| domestic worker | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| don't know | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| don't remember | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| dont know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| driver in constructtion industtry | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to serious disability, cannot work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| factory worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| farmer | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| farming, never worked | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| firestone,selling and fixing ttyres | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| fishing | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| grandmother used to plough crops and did domestic duties | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| growing own vegetables for the family to eat | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| growing vegettables for family to eat -never employed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he looked aftter his cattle and sheeps | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he never worked but was a chief of a tribe | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he was a driver | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he was digging gold in the mines with spade | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he was not working | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| he was working in a grahamstown municipality and he was collecting the refuse a | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| herbalist, he was a traditional healer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| his father was a mechanic | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house wife | 4 |
1.1%
|
|
| household wife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| housewife | 8 |
2.2%
|
|
| housewife, domestic duteis | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| housewife,lokking afer kids | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| housewife,looking afer kids | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| housewife,pensioner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| i don' know when i was born he was not working | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| i dont know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| labour in a construction company building houses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| labourer | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| labourer at fishing trawlers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| leaving with her uncle | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| looking after children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| looking after livestock | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| looking after stock | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| looking after the family and other domestic issues | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| making spices | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| manager | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| mine worker, labour | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| mineworkeer,he was a nduna(foreman) underground | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| mother ploughed fields for survival | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| my family was rich at that time, my father owned a farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| my mother was housewife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| n, iron, cook | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| never | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| never employed | 10 |
2.8%
|
|
| never workded | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| never worked | 11 |
3.1%
|
|
| never worked was a housewife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| never workeed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| none | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not looking for a job | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not looking for work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| nott looking for work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| pensioner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| petrol attendant | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| ploughed fields for food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| police | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| railway | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| sell clothing | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she does n'tt know whatt her fatther did by the time ,he was a worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she is a teacher | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she never worked | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was a domestic worker relying on her husband for any income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was a domestic worker. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was a housewife | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| she was a pensioner. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was a staff nurse | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was earning an old age pension | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was getting diability grant.she also worked as a cleaner of a house in the n | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was never employed | 4 |
1.1%
|
|
| she was self-employed by means of cutting the crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she was working in a domesic work in cape town she used to look after children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she worked in a farm asa domesic worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she working in a hottel cooking food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| spoornet,he was a general worker in habour louding and unloadkng goods | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| state pensioner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| stepfather owned livestock | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sugar farm worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the father had health problems | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the head of the house hold look after cattle and milk them for food he never wor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| tthe motther looked aftter domsttic dutties | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| unemployed | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| unemployed when she grew up | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| urity and bus company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| used to grow vegetables for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| used to work in cape town | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| van guard -deliverinr goods from one place to another | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| was a miner digging gold using equipment such as spades | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| was never employed | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| was working in the farm kitchen cooking and cleaning | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| wheel chair desighner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| work for white family- clean, no old age pension | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| worked as a foreman in a white farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| worked as gardener | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| worked at the poultery, tokai | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| worked in CT ,domesic worker, she was a cleaber and cooker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| worked in cape town | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| working at shops, cleaning | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| working for municipality cutting trees in the forest | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| working in a factory | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| working on the farms | 1 |
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.