Labour Force Survey 2001, September
South Africa, 2001
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Reference ID
ZAF_2001_LFS-SEP_v02_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Data file: LFS 2001_2 Worker_v2
Overview
Valid:
71557
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 122 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 8056 |
11.3%
|
| 3 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 12126 |
16.9%
|
| 4 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 3034 |
4.2%
|
| 5 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 1070 |
1.5%
|
| 6 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 3355 |
4.7%
|
| 7 | Too young or too old to work | 6044 |
8.4%
|
| 8 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 255 |
0.4%
|
| 9 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 8735 |
12.2%
|
| 10 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 110 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Recently retrenched | 739 |
1%
|
| 12 | Other reason | 1282 |
1.8%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 26545 |
37.1%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 84 |
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.