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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
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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May 01, 2014
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  • LFS 2001_2
    House_v2
  • LFS 2001_2
    Person_v2
  • LFS 2001_2
    Worker_v2

Why not look for work (Q37YnotS)

Data file: LFS 2001_2 Worker_v2

Overview

Valid: 71557
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Has been temporarily laid off work 38
0.1%
2 Ill health/Injury/Physical disability 300
0.4%
3 Pregnancy 196
0.3%
4 Family considerations/Child care 747
1%
5 Undergoing training to help find work 127
0.2%
6 No jobs available in the area 4011
5.6%
7 Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work 1476
2.1%
8 Unable to find work requiring his/her skills 526
0.7%
9 Lost hope of finding any kind of work 600
0.8%
10 No transport available 88
0.1%
11 Other reason 350
0.5%
88 Not applicable 62784
87.7%
99 Unspecified 314
0.4%
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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