Population Census 1970

South Africa, 1970

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ZAF_1970_PHC_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Status of Employment (EMPSTAT)

Data file: SA Census 1970 WhitesColouredsAsians_full_v01

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 7

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

M(2). Status of employment - state whether employee, employer (own business), worker for own account (not employing anyone), unemployed (looking for work), not working (not looking for work), etc.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Employer (own business), includes worker for own account (no employees) as well as unpaid family workers in business, profession or farming
2	Employee
3	Unemployed
4	Not working (not looking for work- e.g. housewife, retired, scholar, chronic invalid, etc.)
5	Foreign visitor (visitor from another country on temporary visit to S.A.)

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.

Description

Definition

The employment status of the respondent

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